researchers at McMaster University in Hamilton say they have developed a better way to deliver medicine to the surface of the eye.
Chemical engineer Heather Sheardown said one of her graduate students was developing micelle-based formulations in her lab and they discussed how they could adapt them to treat diseases of the eye.
The team came up with eye drops featuring a drug-carrying aggregate of fatty molecules called a micelle, which gradually releases medicine.
With conventional drops, 95 per cent of the medicine is typically lost before it has a chance to work.