UC-San Diego: It's Hard to Get Meds to the Lungs - Breathable Algae Offers a New Path
May 06, 2025
May 06, 2025
LA JOLLA, California, May 6 -- The University of California San Diego campus issued the following news:
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It's Hard to Get Meds to the Lungs: Breathable Algae Offers a New Path
Algae are the new delivery drivers: they are tiny enough to float in inhalable liquid particles and travel deep inside the lungs of mice where they drop off drugs to fight pneumonia. Years of UC San Diego research are converging, and clinical trials are getting closer.
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It's Hard to Get Meds to the Lungs: Breathable Algae Offers a New Path
Algae are the new delivery drivers: they are tiny enough to float in inhalable liquid particles and travel deep inside the lungs of mice where they drop off drugs to fight pneumonia. Years of UC San Diego research are converging, and clinical trials are getting closer.