Vaccines can be delivered through the skin using ultrasound. This method doesn’t damage the skin and eliminates the need for painful needles. To create a needle-free vaccine, Darcy Dunn-Lawless at the University of Oxford and his colleagues mixed vaccine molecules with tiny, cup-shaped proteins. They then applied liquid mixture to the skin of mice and exposed it to ultrasound – like that used for sonograms – for about a minute and a half.

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    7 months ago

    It’s not just the time we’ve saved here. Think of people on insulin that have to take shots multiple times a day.

    The medical implications of this are massive it is absolutely a game changer.

    If it ever comes into fruition.

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      7 months ago

      We’ll have to wait and see how this impacts anything that needs to be injected deeper than skin level, which is why the focus is on vaccines.