| abstract |
A device ( 10 ) provides for transport of material across or into a biological barrier ( 2 ), the device includes a puncturing projection ( 11 c ) associated with a first portion of a substrate ( 1 ), the first portion of the substrate being movable between a first substrate position in which, in use, the puncturing projection is in puncturing contact with the biological barrier so as to form a flow path for said material across or into said biological barrier and a second substrate position in which, in use, the puncturing projection is at least partially retracted from the first position, wherein the substrate is resiliently deformable or displaceable from the first to the second substrate position by a biasing device associated with the substrate. |