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Thursday 28 August 2008

VACCINE AGAINST TB

http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/stories/2008/08/25/daily19.html?ana=from_rss
The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI) said it’s been awarded a $6.3 million federal grant to study a new tuberculosis vaccine.The four-year grant is from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. Tuberculosis vaccines haven’t changed much in many years, according to researchers at the Seattle nonprofit.“The currently available vaccine, Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG), was developed in 1921 and fails to protect most people beyond childhood,” said Rhea Coler of IDRI, said in a statement.IDRI is focusing on the making of adjuvants — an essential ingredient in several vaccines — that it believes can target specific immune pathways and improve vaccine protection

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