{"id":128068,"date":"2021-09-24T20:22:25","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T03:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-3d-printed-vaccine-patch-offers-vaccination-without-a-shot"},"modified":"2021-09-24T20:22:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T03:22:25","slug":"a-3d-printed-vaccine-patch-offers-vaccination-without-a-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/a-3d-printed-vaccine-patch-offers-vaccination-without-a-shot","title":{"rendered":"A 3D printed vaccine patch offers vaccination without a shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-3d-printed-vaccine-patch-offers-vaccination-without-a-shot2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a 3D-printed vaccine patch that provides greater protection than a typical vaccine shot.<\/p>\n<p>The trick is applying the vaccine patch directly to the skin, which is full of immune cells that vaccines target.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting immune response from the vaccine patch was 10 times greater than vaccine delivered into an arm muscle with a needle jab, according to a study conducted in animals and published by the team of scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Scientists at Stanford University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill create a vaccine patch with microneedles that dissolve into the skin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Stanford University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have created a 3D-printed vaccine patch that provides greater protection than a typical vaccine shot. The trick is applying the vaccine patch directly to the skin, which is full of immune cells that vaccines target. The resulting immune response from the vaccine [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}