article_snippet: The latest innovations include a bra that could deliver life-saving breast cancer medication and socks that warn if you’re at risk of injury.
article_snippet: : A bra contains technology which allows tiny ‘nano’ particles of a substance - for instance, a drug - to be embedded into a material .
article_snippet: Another material technology, known as micro-encapsulation, allows tiny ‘nano’ particles of a substance — for instance, a drug — to be embedded into a material so it is gradually absorbed through the skin when worn.
article_snippet: BRA THAT DELIVERS CANCER DRUGS .
article_snippet: BRA contains micro-encapsulated ‘bubbles’ of the drug Tamoxifen in soft, plastic inserts in the cups.
article_snippet: BRA was developed by Sarah Da Costa, a Masters student at Central St Martins, London.
article_snippet: BRA aims to provide a possible solution for thousands of women who find the side-effects of Tamoxifen intolerable.
article_snippet: ’s next project is to see whether similar technology could be used to deliver dementia drug galantamine via bedding or nightwear.
article_snippet: Fibres feed this information to a ‘black box’ — about the size of a credit card — attached to T-SHIRT.
highlights_snippet: Latest innovations include a bra that could deliver life-saving breast cancer medication and socks that warn if you’re at risk of injury .
  