DNA Vaccines: The Future Of Disease Control
Sunday, July 29, 2012 - 06:01
in Biology & Nature
Right now, we protect people and animals against diseases by inoculating them with vaccines based on real infectious agents - but that brings risk of reinfection and the expense of cultivating and handling deadly viruses and bacteria.The future may mean DNA vaccines, basically cutting out the biological middleman. read more
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