Science Briefs: Multivaccines

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April 11, 2001

 

 

“Science Briefs: Multivaccines”

Boston Globe (www.boston.com/globe) (04/10/01) P. B9; Reucroft,

Stephen; Swain, John

Using a new technique, researchers may be able to create a new generation of vaccines.  According to Samuel J. Danishefsky and his colleagues at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research and Columbia University, several carbohydrate-based antigens can be attached to amino acids and then strung together to make molecules with multiple antigens.  Already, clusters of three cancer cell antigens have been created.  The researchers are now trying to create larger clusters and also actual vaccines using the clusters.

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