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Preventing diseases may soon be as simple as applying a band-aid

An innovative new way to deliver vaccines could drastically improve the health of the third world, and even the first world, by making vaccines cheaper and easier to distribute and use. The “vaccine patch”...

16 February, 2013

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Injection-free vaccination technique could address global vaccine challenge for HIV, malaria

Scientists at King’s College London have demonstrated the ability to deliver a dried live vaccine to the skin without a traditional needle, and shown for the first time that this technique is powerful enough to...

5 February, 2013

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