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An even cooler approach is microneedle polymer array patches, currently under R&D last time I checked (it’s been a while though). It consists of an elastomeric
by dinvlad 4y ago
An even cooler approach is microneedle polymer array patches, currently under R&D last time I checked (it’s been a while though). It consists of an elastomeric array of microscopic needles (<1/4 mm I think) that are coated with vaccine, making it truly biocompatible and painless, since the pain nerves are located deeper under the skin, while the blood capillaries are closer.
- apendleton 4y agoThere are variants of this approach where, rather than having the needles be coated, they're made of a dissolvable sugar with the vaccine incorporated into them (so they are the vaccine in some sense). You'd apply them like a bandaid, wait a bit for it to dissolve, then take them off, and the whole process could be done at home with no supervision at all.
- dinvlad 4y agoYep, that too. Do you know if they’ve been marketed already? Or still in the R&D phase? I last looked at it ~8 years ago when I was working with someone who started a company around that.