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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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[-] pauljacobson@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

I'm diabetic. This would be awesome!!

[-] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I'm dumb...what does being diabetic have to do with inability to get needle vaccines? I'm seriously asking.

[-] Dadbod89@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

There's type 1 and 2 diabetes. I believe type 2 requires you to regularly prick your fingers to test your blood sugar levels several times a day while type 1 requires mandatory insulin shots into your stomach a few times a day. Basically a diabetic fuckin hates needles for good reason and to be able to do that with ultrasound would be rad.

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