Over 6 billion COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered worldwide, which is great, but a recent News Medical article says a 3D printed microneedle patch may actually be more effective. Researchers at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill developed a vaccine microneedle patch that’s loaded with immune cells that vaccines target. Studies showed that the immune response from the patch was 10 times greater than the traditional needle jab.
Vaccine Patch Outperforms Injection
A microneedle COVID-19 vaccine patch could be 10 times more effective than the traditional jab.
Oct 1, 2021
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