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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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