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Getting vaccines to people who need them isn t always easy. Many vaccines require cold storage, making it difficult to ship them to remote areas that don t have the necessary infrastructure.
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Vaccine printer could help vaccines reach more people: The printer generates vaccine-filled microneedle patches that can be stored long-term at room temperature and applied to the skin sciencedaily.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sciencedaily.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MIT researchers designed a tabletop vaccine printer that could be scaled to produce hundreds of doses in a day and deployed anywhere vaccines are needed. The doses are contained within microneedle patches that can be stored long-term at room temperature and applied to the skin, avoiding the need for injections.