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MIT Builds A Needle-Free Drug Injector
May 29, 2012 /
The needle and syringe are icons of modern medicine.
But a device developed at MIT to squirt medicines quickly and pretty much painlessly through the skin suggests that the future of medicine could be needle-free.
The idea is to shoot an extremely thin, extremely fast jet of medicine straight through skin and into muscle. "It’s sort of like a laser beam," project leader and mechanical engineering professor Ian Hunter tells Shots.
by Ted Burnham
Full Story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/05/25/153697885/mit-builds-a-needle-free-drug-injector
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