After 31 Days in Rodents, HOBIT’s Real Advance Is an Oxygen Source Inside the Implant
HOBIT is not just a small implant that stores medicine. It is a cell-based drug factory, and the part that changed its performance was an internal oxygen generator. In early rodent studies, the device kept engineered cells alive long enough to produce three biologics at once—an anti-HIV antibody, a GLP-1-like peptide for diabetes, and leptin—by…