In future, diabetes patients can swallow their medicines instead of taking insulin shots.

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This could be achieved by innovative design of small pills that could deliver drugs to the gut.

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RoboCap, a robotic capsule that can burrow past mucus inside the intestine to deliver grugs.

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These devices could help in easy absorption of drugs and also an effective alternative for injection based medicines.

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The pill includes a mini-motor that can power the device to spin around.

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The spinning of the capsule regulates twisting and turning through the mucus layers in the small intestine.

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After 30 minutes of twists and turns, the pill passes through the system.

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The makers of this pill tested it with vancomycin, a pill used to treat bacterial infection and insulin in pigs.

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The RoboCap robotic capsule was able to deliver 20 to 40 times better bioavailability and how well the body absorbs the drugs.

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They also found that RoboCap capsule was able to spread the drugs over a larger surface area in the gut than the control methods.

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