MicrobeWorld App

appsquarebannerad200x200

Microbes After Hours

BioEcon-SMALLThumb

Click for more "Microbes After Hours" videos

Featured Image

Featured Video

mbmb2

Bacteria and a glass of milk - it's a new way to immunize

Image

CHILDREN could be vaccinated with bacteria mixed in milk and people in the developing world given unprecedented access to immunisations under a scheme proposed by an Australian Nobel laureate, Barry Marshall.

Professor Marshall believes various strains of Helicobacter pylori - the bacterium that won him his Nobel Prize, when he helped show it to be the cause of stomach ulcers - could be modified with DNA from pathogens and used as an oral delivery platform for vaccines that would be cheaper and more easily produced than injections.

Click "source" for entire article.
 
 

Comments (0)

Collections (0)

 

American Society for Microbiology
2012 1752 N Street, N.W. • Washington, DC 20036-2904 • (202) 737-3600

Copyright © American Center for Microbiology 2012. All Rights Reserved.