With coronavirus vaccines currently being administered around the country, it feels appropriate to remember the Irishman who pioneered the hypodermic needle. Born in 1801, Francis Rynd was a Dublin ...

When a vaccine is finally approved for manufacture, the rush to stock up on ancillary products will be unprecedented. Across the world, according to Simone Blayer, who oversees vaccine process ...

Flu vaccine delivered through skin patches containing microneedles has proven just as effective at preventing influenza in mice as intramuscular, hypodermic flu immunization. A team of researchers at ...

Although a technology known as electroporation is very effective at delivering DNA-based vaccines, the required equipment tends to be bulky, complex and expensive. Now, however, scientists have shown ...

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When it comes to safer, less painful, slow-release alternatives to the hypodermic injection of medications, "microneedle patches" show a lot of promise. Now, MIT scientists have adapted the technology ...

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Next month every one of the 300,000 Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees who is willing will get a hypodermic injection in his arm. In consequence it is hoped that no more than 300 of them will ...