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Scientists create ‘tattoos’ that can deliver medication

tattoos that deliver medicationAs technology advances our tools become smaller and more efficient. This has become true for a skin-like polymer that is about as this as a temporary tattoo. The trick is that this new tool may be able to dispense medicine based on motion, according to Venture Beat. 

“A skin-like polymer material was layered with stretchable, motion and temperature sensors, resistive RAM, microheaters and drugs to be delivered through the skin. One possible use case is on-the-spot delivery of medicine in response to muscle movement, such as for epilepsy or Parkinson’s disease,” the article reads.

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In addition to dispensing medicine, the new technology may also be able to store data.

To read more about the new, medicating tattoo click here.

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