By Meaghan Lee Callaghan
With a nod to Aldous Huxley and a hat tip to tortoises, researchers have created an ingestible device that can deliver biologic drugs, such as insulin, directly into the gastrointestinal tract.
The swallowable, self-orienting, millimeter-scale applicator, or SOMA—the drug in Huxley’s futuristic novel “Brave New World”—one day could allow doctors to administer drugs orally but avoid contact with gastric fluids, thereby preserving their