FDA Considers New Approach to Improve Safe Disposal of Prescription Opioid Analgesics, Decrease Unnecessary Exposure to Unused Medication | FDA

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The U.S Food and Drug Administration established a public docket to consider adding a mail-back envelope requirement to the Opioid Analgesic Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy to require that all opioid analgesics, including immediate-release, extended-release, and long-acting formulations, …

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Acoustic Tweezers Help Characterize Cell Interactions | Medgadget

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Researchers at Duke University created an acoustic tweezer system that can precisely manipulate cells and particles. The device can be used to study the interactions between cells, for instance by precisely selecting two cells in a sample and bringing them together gently to study the adhesion force between them. This could be useful in discovering the affinity between cancer cells and other cell types, as a proxy for studying metastasis, or the interaction of immune cells with cancer cells. 

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