A syringe that doesn't hurt

Hi, everyone! Now guess what I am going to talk about:

1. Baseball (a recent trade with LG and Kiwoom)

2. Lions

3. A fantasy story

Well, it is none of the above. Now, let’s start.

Do you have a nightmare of having to get an injection with the long, painful syringe needle? Well, now you won’t have to think of it. I recently saw a science video where a professor made a syringe that did not hurt. I was surprised by the starting part of the video, so I stayed more focused. I was more surprised when it said we Koreans made it for the first time!

It started with the PD getting a quick injection with the syringe that didn’t hurt. The professor asked if it hurt. The PD said that it did not hurt at all. The professor showed us the syringe. The part where the treatment goes in looked like it was just a flat surface. But as the camera zoomed in, I could see it had small spikes. The professor said he got the idea of it from a poisonous snake’s teeth while thinking if he could make syringes less painful.

And the video showed us a close-up screen to the syringe. But when I caught the first image of it, it looked like it was going to hurt, very much. Still, the PD said it didn’t hurt, and I guess I have to trust him on that. By the way, the syringe is going to be a syringe that you attach to your skin until the drug/treatment fully goes into your body.

While an interview, the professor said,

“The viper we usually think of has anterior molars. This molar is in the shape of a straw. It is the same principle as the syringe we commonly use. However, the viper inspired by this research team is a unique viper that is not found in Korea with its molars located on the back. The molars on the back are not in the form of straws, but have a structure that forms an elongated groove from top to bottom along the surface of the molars. This unique structure not only does not break easily, but also creates microscopic grooves in the skin when bitten. Along these microscopic grooves, the poison is rapidly pumped into the skin from the venom gland.”

He added, “We took advantage of this capillary action to penetrate the dead skin cells and quickly inject the liquid ingredients. As a result, it has been successfully proven that various active ingredients can be effectively delivered through the dead skin cells within a very short time of a few seconds.”

After this video ended, I hoped the times of “painful” syringes would end and syringes would have the image of “not painful at all”.