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Vaccine Patch Removes Needle Pain

Posted by timothy on from the non-death-by-a-thousand-cuts dept.

wog777 writes "Researchers led by Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Institute of Technology reported their research on microneedles in Sunday's edition of Nature Medicine. A microneedle contains needles so small you don't even feel them. Attached to a patch like a Band-Aid, the little needles barely penetrate the skin before they dissolve and release their vaccine."

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  1. Re:Some details from the article... by Johnno74 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Ouchies. Getting a vaccination from a needle 200 meters wide x 650 meters long doesn't sound "painless".

  2. Re:Some details from the article... by noidentity · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The needles are conical, about 200m diameter by 650m long, with 10m radius of curvature at the tip.

    I wouldn't exactly call these small. Hell, my torso isn't even 1m in diameter!