Needles have played a crucial role in inducing life-saving vaccines, and drugs into a patient's system, however, when it's the most dreaded part of a child's experience at a doctor's clinic. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology ( IIT ) Bombay have introduced a painless alternative in the form of a shockwave-based needle-free syringe

This invention comes as a solution to those patients who fear needle pricks often leading to missed vaccinations and delayed treatments.