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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    11 months ago

    As interesting as that would be to happen, in reality, there’s just going to be a bunch more people going without pre natal care.

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      11 months ago

      Which is going to be most red states in the next decade. Great time to be in the little coffin business though.