The following is an edited excerpt.
Producing vaccines against viral threats is a potentially hazardous business and that’s why manufacturers have to operate strict controls to ensure that no pathogens escape.
British scientists have developed a new method to create an entirely synthetic vaccine which doesn’t rely on using live infectious virus, meaning it is much safer.
What’s more the prototype vaccine they have created, for the animal disease foot-and-mouth, has been engineered to make it more stable.
Read the full article here: Synchrotron yields ‘safer’ vaccine
