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Skin patches instead of needles: can nanotechnology vaccinate the world?

  • Written by Tristan Clemons, Research Fellow in Bionanotechnology, University of Western Australia
imageEasy to transport and store, skin patches could soon replace needles for vaccination. WorldBankPhotos/flickr , CC BY-NC-ND

Who likes getting a needle? I know I definitely don’t.

Someone else who doesn’t is Mark Kendall from the University of Queensland, winner of the Young Florey Medal 2016.

Mark’s work in developing the nanopatch...

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