Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines: Tests in mice show they work against Ebola, influenza, and common parasite
Monday, July 4, 2016 - 14:01
in Health & Medicine
MIT engineers have developed a new type of easily customizable vaccine that can be manufactured in one week, allowing it to be rapidly deployed in response to disease outbreaks. So far, they have designed vaccines against Ebola, H1N1 influenza, and Toxoplasma gondii (a relative of the parasite that causes malaria), which were 100 percent effective in tests in mice.