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Quest for Edible Malarial Vaccine Leads to Other Potential Medical Uses for Algae
April 19, 2013
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Can scientists rid malaria from the Third World by simply feeding algae, genetically engineered with a vaccine to mammals? That's the question biologists at the University of California, San Diego, sought to answer after they demonstrated last May that algae can be engineered to produce a vaccine that blocks malaria transmission. In a follow-up study, the biologists got their answer: Not yet, although the same method may work as a vaccine against a wide variety of viral and bacterial infections.Full StorySource
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