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.

      • @Veneroso
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        76 months ago

        Ohhh that makes so much sense.

        No time to waste, need to stock up on aluminum foil!

        (Seriously though this is going to go off the rails quick. I know someone who put their phone in the microwave just to avoid it getting the emergency broadcast system test. “I don’t trust anything about FEMA”)

          • @Veneroso
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            56 months ago

            No but that would have been hilarious. Though probably a fire hazard.

      • @Veneroso
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        16 months ago

        Asking the real questions.