고통 없이 약물 주입...독사 이빨 닮은 주사 개발<br /><br />Local scientists have developed a new, pain-free injection method as an alternative to syringes,... which might be good news for those of you who are afriad of the needle.<br />Our Cho Sung-min has more. <br />Visiting hospitals could easily turn into a nightmare for those who are scared of needles.<br />In spite of countless efforts to develop patient-friendlier injection methods,...needles remain as the most efficient device to administer medicine quickly and directly into the body. <br />Now, researchers at Soongsil University might have found a feasible solution, as they have come up with a new pain-free injection technique inspired by snake fangs, which inject venom into a prey as soon as the fang enters the skin. <br />The team created tiny snake fang-shaped capsules made with hydrogel material of the size of one-thousandth of a standard syringe. <br />Each of the hydrogel capsules has six pores filled with vaccines or other liquid drugs to be smoothly seeped into the body. <br />Researchers then attached one-hundred of these hydrogel capsules onto a small square patch. <br />Medicine can be delivered in just ten seconds without inducing any pain. <br />"The system is meticulously designed to deliver medicine directly through the skin. The immune cells in the skin would actively react to the medicine, boosting the patient's resistance to diseases."<br />The hydrogel patches are very versatile and can be used for other purposes such as cosmetic tools. <br />The team is currently working on commercializing the patches,...and added they would be cheaper and easily usable than normal syringes. <br />Cho Sung-min, Arirang News. <br />
