{"56404":{"#nid":"56404","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Microneedles Research from Prausnitz Lab Featured in TIME.com","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWhat if, instead of having to brave a hypodermic needle each time you needed a shot, you could simply slap on a patch and go about your day? According to some preliminary research from scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, that possibility may be just a few years off.  The group of scientists, led by Mark Prausnitz, a professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at Georgia Tech, have developed a patch that has five rows of tiny \u0022microneedles\u0022 about as wide as human hairs that can be used to painlessly administer vaccines and other medications. To test the efficiency of the new device, Prausnitz and his colleagues gave the flu vaccine to a group of mice, half by way of traditional injection, and half using the new microneedle patch. Later, the mice were exposed to the live flu virus, after which the scientists tested their immune responses and levels of antibodies. They found that the vaccine, administered via the patch, yielded the exact same level of protection as a traditional shot.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/wellness.blogs.time.com\/2009\/08\/19\/a-patch-to-take-the-ouch-out-of-shots\/\u0027\u003EView full article\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www.chbe.gatech.edu\/drugdelivery\/\u0027\u003EVisit Prausnitz lab\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"What if, instead of having to brave a hypodermic needle each time you needed a shot, you could simply slap on a patch and go about your day? According to some preliminary research from scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University, that possibility may be just a few years off.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"A patch to take the ouch out of shots"}],"uid":"27195","created_gmt":"2009-08-20 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:06","author":"Colly Mitchell","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-08-19T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"56405":{"id":"56405","type":"image","title":"by Gary Meek","body":null,"created":"1449175629","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 20:47:09","changed":"1475894499","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:41:39","alt":"by Gary Meek","file":{"fid":"190464","name":"tpw48481.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpw48481_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/tpw48481_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":38849,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/tpw48481_0.jpg?itok=ytmLuD1M"}}},"media_ids":["56405"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"3346","name":"drug delivery"},{"id":"2780","name":"drug design"},{"id":"5910","name":"Drug Discovery"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"495","name":"Mark Prausnitz"},{"id":"7496","name":"microneedles"},{"id":"7537","name":"patch"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EColly Mitchell\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EParker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=cmitchell6\u0022\u003EContact Colly Mitchell\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-5982\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["colly.mitchell@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}