RaniPill (tablet for injections inside the intestine)

2023: Syringe Pill Announcement

In mid-June 2023, biotechnology company Rani Therapeutics unveiled a robotic pill called RaniPill. It is intended for painless injections inside the intestines.

Companies large and small have been trying to turn injectable biologics into pills since insulin was discovered in the 1920s, Rani Therapeutics reported. Moreover Boston San Diego , there are researchers in and who are working on something similar. The simple fact is that taking a pill is easier than a shot. However, some drugs are given as an injection rather than taken by mouth, due to the human gut breaking them down like food before they are absorbed.

RaniPill (tablet for injections inside the intestine)

According to the developers, the patient swallows RaniPill like a tablet, but inside it, as some call it, has a robot. The system, when it enters the small intestine, opens a self-inflating ball, and a syringe inserts a microneedle into the intestinal wall and delivers the medicine that the patient wants to deliver there. According to Rani Therapeutics, the delivery mechanism is deflated and comes out safely, and the drug is absorbed by the intestinal wall.

Due to the fact that the human intestine does not have acute pain receptors, therefore the injection is completely painless. According to the engineers, the user will not even feel RaniPill. The syringe pill is widely used, from hormones or antibodies to even mRNA-based COVID-19 proteins. The laboratory will simply load any necessary drug into RaniPill.

According to Rani Therapeutics CEO Talat Imran, RaniPill can stop the progression of a disease like osteoporosis, which is a gradual weakening of bones in postmenopausal women. RaniPill will replace daily injections, which most women only begin to give after a broken bone. Imran added that their work will change the lives of millions of people for the better, alleviating pain and suffering.^[1]

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