Use Of Electricity Ups Treatment’s Potency 100-Fold
London: Scientists have developed a hand-held device which delivers a ‘turbo-charged’ vaccine into muscles to treat malignant melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer that kills thousands every year.

Developed by researchers in the UK, the device contains a syringe needle and four electrodes. It’s held against the patient’s upper arm or leg, while the needle contains the vaccine itself, a brief electrical pulse from electrodes creates an opening which allows the DNA to enter cells.