Monday, July 19, 2010

Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain

Posted by timothy on Sunday July 18, @10:36PM
from the non-death-by-a-thousand-cuts dept.
wog777 writes"Researchers led by Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Institute of Technology reported their research on microneedles in Sunday's edition of Nature Medicine. A microneedle containsneedles so small you don't even feel them. Attached to a patch like a Band-Aid, the little needles barely penetrate the skin before they dissolve and release their vaccine."

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