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.

    • @cluelessafterall@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      I know you are joking, but I suspect that many people would swallow this idea while without any thought whatsoever.

      Yes, we live in an age of uncritical thought.