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Jan 19, 2017

On-demand pain relief, triggered by light

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, materials, quantum physics

It will be amazing how this advances with Quantum.


Once injected into the body, a new material can repeatedly release small bursts of local anesthetic when zapped by low-intensity, near-infrared light for one minute (Nano Lett. 2016, DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03588). The material’s developers, who have tested it in rats, say the on-demand system could make pain management safer and more effective, and give patients more control.

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