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Researchers at Oxford’s Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences (NDS) have developed a nerve implant that continually releases minute quantities of a drug that stops scarring.

Construction of steroid eluting microchannel implants (end view).  (a) The seven layers that make up the channel array. (b) Assembled channel array. (c) Close-up of part of panel (b) showing details of channel and drug layer dimensions. © James FitzGerald
Construction of steroid eluting microchannel implants (end view). (a) The seven layers that make up the channel array. (b) Assembled channel array. (c) Close-up of part of panel (b) showing details of channel and drug layer dimensions.