Fast Company May 3, 2022
Ruth Reader

Equipped with 100 microneedles, a 3D printed vaccine patch from DeSimone Research Group—a winner of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards—can be painlessly applied like a Band-Aid.

A significant percentage of adults don’t get vaccinated because they are afraid of needles. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that one in 10 people may have delayed their COVID-19 shot to avoid a poke in the arm.

Researchers at the DeSimone Research Group at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University have devised a 3D printed vaccine patch that can be painlessly applied like a Band-Aid. The patch—the winner of the experimental category of Fast Company’s 2022 World Changing Ideas Awards—is printed with 100 microneedles...

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