HELP is at hand for people who have to take minuscule doses of foul-tasting drugs. Spanish scientists have worked out how to make the tiniest drug capsules ever—by wrapping a liquid in a liquid.
Bitter medicines and pungent health foods like garlic pearls are sealed inside gel capsules that dissolve only after they are swallowed. But for much smaller doses, it has been impossible to produce tiny capsules of uniform size and composition—key requirements for accurately controlling drug delivery.
But now Ignacio Loscertales and colleagues at the University of Malaga say they can produce dual-layered capsules as small…
