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Monday, 8th December 2008 (1643 views)

An Australian team has developed a range of gold jewellery that can administer drugs such as insulin into the body, it has emerged.

Artist Leah Heiss joined forces with Nanotechnology Victoria to design the MicroArray Patch delivery system, the Age reports.

The system can be added to any type of jewellery in order to painlessly administer medicine at regular intervals using thousands of tiny needles.

Nanotechnology Victoria's manager of delivery and sensing development Michelle Critchley said the invention means people who rely on drug-delivery systems can feel less self-conscious.

She told the news provider: "If you look at a lot of [portable] medications, they're not very attractive - you either have to wear an insulin pump on your back or you have to wear a bandage, which is quite obvious and visible to people."

Gold nanoparticles can also be used by scientists to deliver drugs into the human body, as recently outlined by researchers at Purdue University.

 

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