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

submitted 11 months ago by tsonfeir@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

I guess it's interesting but this seems to have minimal use case. For those with reactions to injections and such it's useful, but it seems much easier to use a needle in most cases. Also that article claims that it "doesn't damage the skin", but I don't see why a vaccine would cause any meaningful damage to the skin in the first place.

Edit: Okay I'm seeing now how this would be useful for more frequent injections like insulin and such if it can be used like that.

[–] systemglitch@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It literally tears a hole in the flesh with a puncture wound. It's the definition of damaging.

Minor damage, but damage none the less.

[–] ABCDE@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I have a phobia of needles so this comes in very very handy. I just wish there was one for taking blood out.

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

you just described a deathray mam

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I guess the fear of needles is a constant problem when children are vaccinated. Having an alternative method ready could make it easier for children, parents and doctors.

[–] weker01@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Not only children. I know a guy that passes out (or almost does) when they try to inject him with needles.

[–] Octavio@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I know a guy like that too. Okay, it’s me. I have to ask the doctor to let me be lying down when I get a shot. But at least it’s not as embarrassing as passing out in the little chair and have a 115 lb. nurse trying to hold me up before I hit the floor. That has happened more than once.