{"id":201486,"date":"2024-12-13T02:17:35","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/stanford-scientists-transform-ubiquitous-skin-bacterium-into-a-topical-vaccine"},"modified":"2024-12-13T02:17:35","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T08:17:35","slug":"stanford-scientists-transform-ubiquitous-skin-bacterium-into-a-topical-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/stanford-scientists-transform-ubiquitous-skin-bacterium-into-a-topical-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"Stanford scientists transform ubiquitous skin bacterium into a topical vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stanford-scientists-transform-ubiquitous-skin-bacterium-into-a-topical-vaccine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into your one of your muscles. Even better, it\u2019s entirely pain-free and not followed by fever, swelling, redness or a sore arm. No standing in a long line to get it. Plus, it\u2019s cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Stanford University researchers\u2019 domestication of a bacterial species that hangs out on the skin of close to everyone on Earth, that vision could become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe all hate needles \u2014 everybody does,\u201d said <a href=\"https:\/\/profiles.stanford.edu\/michael-fischbach\">Michael Fischbach<\/a>, PhD, the Liu (Liao) Family Professor and a professor of bioengineering. \u201cI haven\u2019t found a single person who doesn\u2019t like the idea that it\u2019s possible to replace a shot with a cream.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine a world in which a vaccine is a cream you rub onto your skin instead of a needle a health care worker pushes into your one of your muscles. Even better, it\u2019s entirely pain-free and not followed by fever, swelling, redness or a sore arm. No standing in a long line to get it. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201486","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}