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April 22, 2019 by Ella Pickett

Still, it wasn't until last summer, when a team of researchers at Harvard published an initial feasibility study that they showed that using a self-righting pill would significantly enhance the body's ability to pump nutrients as well as the ability to deliver drugs without the need for hormones. (The team is now testing a similar self-righting technique in rabbits, which the scientists say will be a major step toward its eventual clinical use in humans.)

"The idea for this study has been to get a piece of paper from a patient sitting next to me and say 'I need to do this.' That's an extremely hard thing to do," says Dr. Peter Schulz, one of the researchers, who also serves on the board of the Institute for Advanced Study on Steroids in Boston. "There's no way that this could be done in humans, and we're thinking about how we could use it in animals."

Dr. Schulz says that the team has yet to develop a self-righting pill that works for the human gut, but that it could be possible someday. "The idea of such an idea is something that was once thought to be a very promising idea," he says.

This research was supported by the National Institutes of Health.

The researchers are also working with a group of the NIH's National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which conducted a study of needle-fearing patients before and after using a self-righting pill.

"I think our hope is that this idea will give us a whole new level of control that we can use to make decisions and keep patients in a constant, healthy, healthy, and healthy state," Dr. Schulz says.

The NIH and the National Institutes of Health will sponsor the development of the self-righting pill in clinical trials in the coming years, but that hope will be tempered by the need for a second round of testing, which could take several years, the researchers say. "Until that happens, we just want to see if this new idea is that much more effective," says Dr. Schulz.Image copyright AFP Image caption French police are conducting a search of the apartment block

Police have raided a Paris apartment block, saying that someone had committed a "serious crime."

The raid was conducted following a report of an accident.

One person was arrested, according to police.

Investigators are investigating how the accident happened and whether someone may have been involved.

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