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.

  • @[email protected]
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    16410 months ago

    While this is awesome, I can already imagine anti-vaxxers are now deathly afraid of ultrasounds lol

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      10 months ago

      Brace yourselves! Vaccination with sound conspiracies coming in!

      “The IRS called, they vaccinated me trough my phone in my ear!!?”

      “Mass vaccinations trough radio!!?”

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        1710 months ago

        As much as I hate fucking mobile alerts, they already thought the last test was some magical bullshit.

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          610 months ago

          Ya see that one where someone’s landlord went loopy and cut power to their building because he’d consumed a bunch of conspiracy nut stuff?

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            -110 months ago

            I didn’t but I’m not surprised. I feel like this mystical thinking is rooted in our acceptance of religion to some extent.

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          310 months ago

          I know you are joking, but I suspect that many people would swallow this idea while without any thought whatsoever.

          Yes, we live in an age of uncritical thought.

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      710 months ago

      When they’ll hear about it they’ll make ultrasound themselves)

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      710 months ago

      Wanna bet that they will somehow combine this with 5G conspiracies?

      “It’s all just a wave after all!!!” /s

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      510 months ago

      Idk, anti vaxxers aren’t afraid of needles/syringes as far as I understand. They don’t want that kind of substance to be put inside their body, regardless of the method of administration