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.

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    11 months ago

    Presumably the version they use in Star Trek avoids that problem somehow, so it’s still a thing that would need to be invented.

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      11 months ago

      The doctors are constantly jabbing people one right after another and often through the uniform…I’d love to see the explanation in universe for that

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        11 months ago

        Medicine is improved so everyone has super immunity in the future. So it’s not that the hypo isn’t pushing dirt into their veins, it’s that they don’t care.