Scientists Make Major Breakthrough In Vaccine Design
Thursday, February 6, 2014 - 06:50
in Health & Medicine
Vaccines are the safest, cheapest and most effective way to protect against infectious diseases. But to make a good one is still a challenge, and traditional approaches are now stretched to the limit while fatal diseases, like HIV and malaria, remain without vaccine. But a major breakthrough that turns vaccine design on its head is being published in Nature on the 6th of February; a computational method that, from the protective antibodies of patients designs the vaccine specific to induce them (and protect against the disease). read more