The patches are said to be less painful than traditional needle vaccines and could possibly be self-administered.
at Chapel Hill said last week that a 3D-printed vaccine patch they developed could offer a less painful alternative to traditional needles and might generate a stronger immune response.
A team of scientists say they've developed 3D-printed vaccine patches that may offer stronger immune responses than traditional needle shots. Above are vials and syringes of COVID vaccines at a Culver City Fire Department vaccination clinic on August 5, in California.DeSimone is a professor of translational medicine and chemical engineering at Stanford University and professor emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The researchers said that delivering vaccines into skin cells can show increased efficacy over needle shots because skin is full of immune cells. Traditional needles, meanwhile, are injected through the skin and into muscle or into the layer of tissue underneath the skin.
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