Billed as “melt-in-your-mouth” tablets, a new drug-delivery technology is being promoted as an easier, better, cost-effective way for people to take drugs in pill form.
Frosta has been developed by Akina, a startup from Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette, Indiana.
Frosta is a tablet formulation that can melt in a person’s mouth in as little as [...]

A neat fix for ageing eyes could soon be tested in humans. The treatment, which involves replacing the contents of the lens in the eye with a soft polymer gel, could allow millions of people to throw away their reading glasses.
“At first, we see it being used as an improvement to current cataract surgery,” says [...]

The birth of the world’s first cloned horse has been announced. The healthy female foal – named Prometea – was born to her genetically identical surrogate mother on 28 May. The breakthrough follows the cloning of a mule earlier in 2003.
Cesare Galli, director of the Laboratory of Reproductive Technology in Cremona, and colleagues created Prometea [...]