Sentences with phrase «use microneedle patches»

Painless, easy - to - use microneedle patches could one day replace flu injections and help increase vaccination rates around the world, Science News reports.

«After 40 days, 40 percent of the mice who were treated using the microneedle patch survived and had no detectable remaining melanoma — compared to a zero percent survival rate for the control groups,» says Yanqi Ye, a Ph.D. student in Gu's lab and co-lead author of the paper.

Not exact matches

To address these challenges, the researchers developed a patch that uses microneedles to deliver anti-PD-1 antibodies locally to the skin tumor.

To address the clinical gap, Dr Kang, together with Dr Jaspreet Singh Kochhar, who had recently graduated from NUS with a doctorate degree in Pharmacy, and their team members, used a photolithography based process to fabricate a novel transdermal patch with polymeric microneedles.

As their novel technique for drug delivery is non-invasive and easy to use, the NUS team envisioned that the microneedles patch has great potential for applications in clinical and home care settings for the management of perioperative pain and chronic pain in patients suffering from conditions like diabetes and cancer.

Researchers have developed new microneedle patches that can administer flu vaccines without the pain of using regular shots.