Professor Boris Stoeber, co-founder of UBC spin-off Microdermics, and his team have developed a hollow metal microneedle injection system, a painless alternative for delivering vaccinations and therapeutics, and monitoring drugs in the bloodstream. Their product could one day replace costly, invasive hypodermic needles and improve patient comfort. The array of hollow metal microneedles barely penetrates the skin, so injections feel like mild pressure rather than pain.
P. Shrestha, B. Stoeber, Fluid absorption by skin tissue during intradermal injections through hollow microneedles, Scientific Reports 2018 8, 13749
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