Vaccine patch

Goodbye needles! This revolutionary patch, called the HD-MAP, delivers vaccines painlessly and efficiently without the need for refrigeration – great for developing countries. It is now being commercialised by Australian start-up Vaxxas.

Imaged using scanning electron microscopy by Michael Crichton and Prof. Mark Kendall, University of Queensland.

Size: each projection is only 110 micrometres long.

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