A “biopath” without battery can deliver medications directly to the organs

One of the biggest problems when it comes to treating internal organs is that, well, they are internal. Which means that any of the treatments must be traumatically invasive, or medicine must be pushed through our metabolic pathways, which is not so efficient and can have unwanted side effects.

Now, scientists have created a “biopatch” (as seen in the magazine Nature) that is located under the skin or on the surface of an organ, with deep implications for medical treatments.

The problem of treating drug organs

If it has a disease that affects a particular organ (for example, its liver or pancreas), then you should probably take some kind of oral medicine, or perhaps a subcutaneous injection for chronic conditions such as diabetes.

While the ailment could greatly affect an organ, the medicine has to take a long and complicated path to get there. This often means that the dose of drugs should be relatively high so that enough of this reaches the target organ to work. In addition to that, the drug can have interactions with organs and other tissues in the body that you do not want. That is, those dreaded side effects listed in each pills box.

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Biopatch solves a long list of problems

Now, Chinese scientists have created a nanofluid patch. The 2025 newspaper is behind a payment wall, but you can read the PREDIMPRUCTION 2022 free of charge to obtain the basic idea.

The team has created an “intracellular supply without chips and without chips.” In other words, it is a bit like a curite stuck on the surface of an organ. Within this ultra thin layer patch, there is a small amount of medications. The patch can release this medicine in precise doses directly in the organs of the organ in question.

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A large part of what makes this a great advance is that this small patch is autonomous. So, once it has been implemented, it does not need the wiring that leads to the outside, and is made of biocompatible materials, and does not contain any type of microchip. Instead, wireless power is used to activate and control it.

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Regenerative medications can repair or cure organs directly

If you have direct access to an organ (or a tumor), open all kinds of possibilities. Imagine that a failed organ could be rehabilitated instead of replacing. Or that a transplanted organ could have antirrejection drugs that are delivered and only to it, without compromising the rest of the immune system. Devils, it could even be possible to edit some organs to eliminate the need for drugs against the refused.

To be clear, this is pure speculation of me as a complete layman, but it seems to me that as soon as medical scientists directly bring to the organ of the organ without having to worry about all intermediate barriers, it will allow them to try things that were simply ineffective or too dangerous before.

It is also worth taking into account that we are in the golden age of drug discovery at this time, thanks to computer technology and AI. For example, Google Alfafold He has discovered the complex structures of millions of proteins. Pushing the field of research decades or not centuries ahead in just a few years.

Many of these proteins will obviously be useful for treating diseases, but obtaining large proteins where they need to go is not easy, since they will decompose before doing so where they need to go. There are already precision delivery mechanisms, but something like this biopatch could repeatedly deliver this payload for a long period of time as necessary.

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This is just the beginning

The document only details how the patch was used in the mammary glands of the mice, the supply of gene editing and detection materials, the treatment of breast cancer tumors and the treatment of acute liver lesions. However, potential applications are effectively unlimited.

On the one hand, so many promising medications that seem to work well on a Petri plate do not resist the typical medication supply paths. A direct delivery system like this biopatch could change the game when it comes to the types of medicines and treatments available.

They are the first days, and Biopatch is only one of several more precise administration technologies that we have seen, among other things, the treatment of cancer. It is always good to have as many tools in your arsenal as possible, and for my part, I will be seeing more evidence of this with interest.

In the short term, I hope we are applied as an alternative to traditional chemotherapy, limiting the side effects and the total amount of medications that kill the cancer that are needed. Like any new medical intervention, this will have to go through long security tests, but since it is relatively easy to be implemented, I hope that progress in this area is fast.