"Fizzy" Patch Delivers Long-Acting Birth Control Through Microneedles Under the Skin (2 of 4) (IMAGE)

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"Fizzy" Patch Delivers Long-Acting Birth Control Through Microneedles Under the Skin (2 of 4)

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Microscope images show effervescent microneedles on a contraceptive skin patch. When applied to the skin, effervescent bubbles quickly separate the microneedles from the patch so that the patch can be removed after one minute. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the November 6th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by W. Li at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, "Long-acting reversible contraception by effervescent microneedle patch."

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[Credit: Wei Li, Georgia Tech]

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