If you’re a gardener – and definitely if you’re a farmer – you want to spend less on fertilizer but while growing more food.

Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have reported the development of a microneedle patch that can be self-administered and painlessly deposit a tattoo onto skin within minutes. The ...

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 ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia and Switzerland’s Paul Scherrer Institut have come up with a microneedle that can painlessly measure drugs in a patient’s bloodstream without ...

Researchers from the lab of Robert Langer, ScD, at the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), say they have developed a printer for ...

Engineers at the McKelvey School of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis say they have developed a microneedle patch that can be applied to the skin, capture a biomarker of interest, and ...

Scientists have developed a press-on application process that may make it easier for people to get both medical and cosmetic tattoos. Tattoos may seem like they’re everywhere, and no longer taboo. But ...

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, ...

An influenza vaccine can produce robust immune responses and be administered safely with an experimental patch of dissolving microneedles, shows new research. The method is an alternative to ...

Nobody likes getting shots. But most of us only have to face needles occasionally, for a seasonal flu vaccine or routine blood test. People with some forms of diabetes, on the other hand, have to ...