Enlarge this image A single-use syringe awaits to be filled with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine. Moderna has sued rival drugmakers for patent…
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Avoiding The Ouch: Scientists Are Working On Ways To Swap The Needle For A Pill
by Joe Palca February 7, 2019Enlarge this image A team of researchers in Boston has developed an insulin-delivery system that injects the medicine directly into the stomach…
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China Expands Research Funding, Luring U.S. Scientists And Students
by Joe Palca November 27, 2018Enlarge this image Tianjin, in northern China, is home to Tianjin University, an international research center that recently hired an American to…
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Inspired By Her Own Pain, A Researcher Explores Alternatives To Opioid Treatments
by Joe Palca September 5, 2018Enlarge this image Jelena Janjic, a pain researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, is exploring nanotechnology to deliver non-opioid pain medications directly…
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Enlarge this image An early prototype of the silicon-chip-sized particle accelerator that physicists at Stanford are working on. Eventually, miniature accelerators might…
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Enlarge this image An image from an electron microscope shows a type II alveolar cell, found in the air sacs of lungs.…