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Nobody likes needles, but they're necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body. But what if those could be puffed through the skin instead, with just a little pressure, like being hit in the arm with a foam toy? Today, scientists report steps toward making that a reality. Using powdered vaccines that don't require refrigeration and a system driven by compressed gas, their "MOF-Jet" could easily deliver therapeutics against …

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 Nobody likes needles, but they’re necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body. But what if those could be puffed through the skin instead, with just a little pressure, like being hit in the arm with a foam toy? Today, scientists report steps toward making that a reality. Using powdered vaccines that don’t require refrigeration and a system driven by compressed gas, their “MOF-Jet” could easily deliver therapeutics against 

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Needles are an uncomfortable but necessary aspect of vaccination. But today, scientists report steps toward an alternative, relatively painless method that can 

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A great number of people skip vaccinations because they fear needles. Here is some good news for them, as new research opens the possibility of a novel system that promises a less painful way of delivering vaccines.

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Scared Of Needles? A Puff Of Air Could Deliver Your Future Vaccines

Nobody likes needles, but they’re necessary for delivering many vaccines and biologics into the body. But what if those could be puffed through the skin instead, with just a little pressure, like being hit in the arm with a foam toy?

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Hate Needles? Future Vaccines Could be Delivered by a Gentle Puff of Air

In findings from the American Chemical Society, good news for people who hate needles: future vaccines could be delivered by a gentle puff of air to the arm.

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Future Vaccines Could Be Delivered By A Gentle Puff Of Air

Introducing MOF-Jet, a powdered vaccine that can be puffed through your skin, borne out of pandemic-induced boredom.

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MOF-Jet: Novel powdered vaccine can be puffed through your skin

Good news for people who hate needles — future vaccines could deliver life-threatening drugs with a gentle puff of air to the arm. Scientists say the medicine pushes through the skin, with just a little pressure. It feels like being “hit with a Nerf bullet” — making it much less painful than a jab.

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Vaccines replacing needles with puffs of air could feel like painless Nerf darts

For people frightened of needles, US researchers have developed a system driven by compressed gas that can deliver vaccines and biologics into the human body in a relatively painless way. A team from the University of Texas in Dallas has made a new injector that can have a wide number of applications, from veterinary medicine to agriculture, or someday even human vaccinations or treatments.

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Scientists say the medicine pushes through the skin, with just a little pressure. System uses powdered vaccines which don't need refrigeration or a system featuring compressed gas. Team is now using that method to deliver chemotherapeutics for melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer.

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