Technique Tricks Bacteria Into Generating Their Own Vaccine
Tuesday, February 24, 2009 - 01:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have developed a way to manipulate bacteria so they will grow mutant sugar molecules on their cell surfaces that could be used against them as the key component in potent vaccines. Any resulting vaccines, if proven safe, could be developed more quickly, easily and cheaply than many currently available vaccines used to prevent bacterial illnesses.