Low-cost, handheld, multi-pulse electroporators for simplified nucleic acid delivery in skin.

ABSTRACT: Electroporation-mediated delivery offers a promising alternative to carrier-based nucleic acid delivery methods for vaccination and therapeutic applications. Carrier-based systems like lipid nanoparticles and viral vectors often suffer from poor in vivo stability, immunogenicity, toxicity, and off-target effects. To overcome the high cost, bulkiness, lack of portability, and painful administration of traditional electroporators, we developed the RotoPatch family of small, low-cost, hand-held piezoelectric electroporators that use microneedle electrodes for intradermal delivery of nucleic acids. Notably, these RotoPatch devices use a single rotary motion to administer multiple electroporation pulses through microneedle electrodes, that localize the electric field to the upper layers of the

SUBMITTER: Rohilla P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12821207 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature