University of California, Santa Barbara Researchers Design Pulsed Mircrojet System to Deliver Protein Drugs without Pain or Bruising

Santa Barbara, California – March 6, 2007 -- A team of UCSB researchers, in collaboration with colleagues from UC Berkeley and StrataGent Life Sciences, of Los Gatos, California, has designed a novel pulsed microjet system engineered to deliver protein drugs into the skin without the pain or bruising that deeper penetration injection systems cause. The research was published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.