By Nicolas Hulscher, MPH
In 2019, the Gates Foundation funded the development of biocompatible near-infrared quantum dots delivered to the skin by microneedle patches that record vaccination status.
Now revealed in a new Gates-funded study titled, On-patient medical record and mRNA therapeutics using intradermal microneedles, this technology has advanced dramatically since 2019 — the same microneedle patch can now deliver mRNA and store a complex digital record of that injection directly beneath your skin.
Researchers at MIT’s Koch Institute and Harvard’s Center for Virology and Vaccine Research describe the patch as an “on-patient medical record ( OPMR )” device — a biometric implant that records encoded information using near-infrared fluorescent quantum dots that are invisible to the naked eye but readable by a special camera.
Once applied, the dissolvable needles inject two payloads:
mRNA-LNP cargo, delivering the genetic instructions for spike or other protein production.
Quantum-dot microparticles, which embed a binary pattern of medical data into the dermis for long-term storage ( signal retention ~98 % for three months in pig models ).
Deep-learning algorithms then decode these patterns, allowing machines to instantly read your vaccination status without a database or internet connection. The system can store billions of unique identifiers, enough to assign every person on Earth a distinct code.
These features make it the perfect infrastructure for a biological vaccine passport system. Unlike a paper card or QR code, these microscopic tags cannot be lost, deleted, or forged — they are literally part of the body.
The team notes that such patches could be “administered on demand during pandemics,” language that foreshadows a universal compliance tool for emergency health directives.
In the original 2019 Gates-funded prototype, quantum dots were limited to simple color patterns. Now, paired with machine-learning and error-correcting codes, these patterns can store entire data strings — vaccine type, manufacturer, batch number, date, and even dose sequence — and be read by AI in milliseconds. The technology combines three elements — gene delivery, biometric ID, and AI verification — into a single dissolvable implant small enough to fit on a postage stamp.
As shown in the video pinned to this article, Bill Gates and Albert Bourla openly describe the COVID-19 pandemic as a “rehearsal”—and claim that another is inevitable. With vaccine passport systems already designed and mRNA manufacturing hubs standing by, the quantum-dot microneedle platform could be deployed almost overnight during the next so-called “public health emergency.”
Here it’s important to note that microneedle patch “vaccines” earned their own dedicated session at the 2025 Global Vaccine Forum:
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