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Imagine a world where the hypodermic needle was no longer the go-to form of skin penetration for everything from vaccines to managing diabetes – and on top of this that there were pain-free methods of delivering drugs and sampling biomarkers through the skin that resulted in increased patient adherence and treatment efficacy. →
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