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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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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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[–] Starkstruck 166 points 1 year ago (33 children)

While this is awesome, I can already imagine anti-vaxxers are now deathly afraid of ultrasounds lol

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ultrasound vaccines and 5G!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They push the vaccine through your skin with 5G!

[–] cluelessafterall 3 points 1 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.

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