Microneedle patches replace painful skin biopsies with painless immune cell sampling in 15-30 minutes using microscopic ...

A bandage-like microneedle patch can noninvasively collect immune cells and signals from the skin within minutes to hours.

In an interview with Jay Salazar from Panther Life Sciences, we discuss microarray patch (MAP) technology and its potential to eliminate multi-component kits (vials, syringes, cold chain, sharps) with ...

Microneedle patches could be a painless alternative, and now researchers have developed a way to use them to detect biomarkers at much lower levels, without drawing blood. Microneedle patches are ...

Scientists at the University of Washington say their approach would be more precise and less painful than the traditional skin test that uses a hypodermic needle. Elizabeth Armstrong Moore Elizabeth ...

What if you could get vaccinated with the ease of putting on an adhesive bandage? This is the promise of microneedle patches (MNP), which are essentially what they sound like. These would also have ...

Researchers from Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, Southeast University, and Wenzhou Medical University have developed a novel ...

Contraceptives are rarely convenient – implanted devices are invasive, and you have to remember to take the pill every day. Now a team led by researchers at Georgia Tech are developing a painless, ...

Micron Biomedical has begun trialing a microneedle-based measles-rubella vaccine in children. The Atlanta-based drug delivery specialist said the phase 1/2 study is the first time a microneedle ...

March 24 is World TB Day—an occasion to galvanize more attention to an unnecessarily persistent disease. Tuberculosis is chronically overlooked. Fully one-quarter of the world’s population is infected ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Peanut-coated microneedles may represent a safe and effective alternative to epicutaneous immunotherapy, ...