The new technology uses a jet of air to push the vaccine through the skin and aims to predict how the virus could mutate.
A new COVID-19 vaccine administered using a jet of air rather than a needle to push the dosage through the skin is being trialled at the University of Southampton.variants.
Saul Faust, the clinical chief investigator and director of the NIHR Southampton Clinical Research Facility, said:"This isn't simply 'yet another' coronavirus vaccine as it has bothScientists behind the jab hope it can predict how the virus will mutateMost of the existing coronavirus vaccines use the sequence of the RNA for the spike protein from the first samples of the virus found in January 2020.
Professor Jonathan Heeney, at the University of Cambridge who developed the vaccine with research company DIOSynVax, said:"As new variants emerge and immunity begins to wane we need newer technologies.
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