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Ultrasound can push vaccines into the body without needles (www.newscientist.com)
submitted 11 months 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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[–] SVcross 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That does sound amazing. Do we know if they lose any effectiveness?

[–] IEatAsbestos 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Probably not, theres been some needleless vaccines before that did ok. If anyone has done time in the military you're probably familiar. Also any loss in efficacy could probably just be offset with higher concentrations

[–] SVcross 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

First of all, thank you for taking the time help me understand. I didn't know about past vaccines that used the system.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The smallpox vaccine was put on a sugar lump that children then ate (It really was a different time) And even after going through the digestive tract it still worked.

[–] tinwhiskers 1 points 11 months ago

They didn't use this system. There are other needleless systems, primarily jet systems that use high pressure.