The new approach delivers the contraceptive hormonal medication levonorgestrel via what the researchers call “Self-assembling ...

“The solvent is critical because it allows you to inject the fluid through a small needle, but once in place, the crystals self-assemble into a drug depot ... the researchers found that they could ...

After injection under your skin, the crystals self-assemble into a compact ... polymer—less than 1.6 percent by weight—to help control the speed of drug release without sacrificing ease ...

In a bid to create a less invasive and more accessible form of birth control ... medication levonorgestrel via Self-aggregating Long-acting Injectable Microcrystals (SLIM). Essentially, these are tiny ...

The team found that the solvent’s poor ability to mix with biological fluids is what allows the solid drug crystals to self-assemble into a depot under the skin after injection. “The solvent is ...

The team found that the solvent’s poor ability to mix with biological fluids is what allows the solid drug crystals to self-assemble into a depot under the skin after injection. “The solvent ...

Photonic crystals are periodic optical structures that can control the flow of light ... which hosts coexisting self-guided topological surface, hinge, and corner states in a single 3D tight ...