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Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)

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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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[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

I can't wait to hear the crazy conspiracies about this one.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

BREAKING NEWS: Republicans leave prenatal care industry in shambles

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

This is more unsettling than a needle to me.

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