Word: vaccinees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
-- A newly developed vaccine promises to protect sick and premature infants against respiratory syncytial virus, which causes 4,500 deaths each year in the U.S.
-- By genetically altering salmonella (the bacteria that cause food poisoning), scientists have rendered female mice allergic to sperm. The technique could lead to a birth-control "vaccine" for humans.
Most vaccine production is carried out by five major pharmaceutical companies: Merck, Smith-Kline Beecham, Connaught, Merieux and Medeva. But according to Dennis Panicali, president and CEO of the Cambridgebased Therion Biologics Corporation, it's the small biotechnology firms which are experimenting with more novel techniques for producing vaccines.
Dr. George R. Siber, an associate professor of medicine, is a busy man on both sides of the vaccine development arena. As a researcher at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Siber works at finding keys to new vaccines. But as director of the Biological Laboratory division of the Mass. Department...
The laboratory was founded in 1894 when most vaccine production went on in public state labs, rather than in private companies. Currently, Siber said, Michigan is the only other state still actively producing vaccine.