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First, the biology. Doctors pretty quickly gave up on the idea of developing one vaccine to prevent all common colds. There are just too many kinds of cold viruses to make that a practical approach, which leaves us treating our colds after they have already started. But here's the...
Scientists have been struggling to create an AIDS vaccine since the mid-1980s, so you would think the failure of the most advanced trial of such an inoculation would leave them seriously depressed. But that wasn't the reaction last week when researchers from VaxGen, a California company, announced that...
It is not only our genes we are learning to play with. What if we could create mosquitoes, those flying hypodermics, that instead of spreading malaria spread a vaccine protecting humans against it? Back in 1965, scientists fused mouse and human cells. Today whole animals are being patented; pigs are...
The first insecticide was made from powdered chrysanthemums in China nearly 2,000 years ago. Now biotech companies test bananas that contain a hepatitis vaccine and tomatoes that fight cancer. Dow makes a kind of corn that can turn into biodegradable plastic. Other companies have field-tested a cross between...
The FDA approves the first genetically engineered vaccine for humans for hepatitis B