{"60104":{"#nid":"60104","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Microneedles May Make Getting Flu Shots Easier","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne day your annual flu shot could come in the mail.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAt least that\u0027s the hope of researchers developing a new method of vaccine delivery that people could even use at home: a patch with microneedles.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EMicroneedles?\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThat\u0027s right, tiny little needles so small you don\u0027t even feel them. Attached to a patch like a Band-Aid, the little needles barely penetrate the skin before they dissolve and release their vaccine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EResearchers led by Mark Prausnitz of Georgia Institute of Technology reported their research on microneedles in Sunday\u0027s edition of Nature Medicine.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe business side of the patch feels like fine sandpaper, he said. In tests of microneedles without vaccine, people rated the discomfort at one-tenth to one-twentieth that of getting a standard injection, he said. Nearly everyone said it was painless.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EVisit URL below to view full NPR article:\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128603588\u0022 title=\u0022http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128603588\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=128603588\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne day your annual flu shot could come in the mail.\n\nAt least that\u0027s the hope of researchers developing a new method of vaccine delivery that people could even use at home: a patch with microneedles.\n\nMicroneedles?\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Microneedles May Make Getting Flu Shots Easier"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2010-07-19 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:11","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-07-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"60107":{"id":"60107","type":"image","title":"Prof. Mark Prausnitz","body":null,"created":"1449176253","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:57:33","changed":"1475894520","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:42:00"}},"media_ids":["60107"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"495","name":"Mark Prausnitz"},{"id":"7496","name":"microneedles"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}