Arctic Bacteria Used To Make Cool Vaccines 74
cremeglace writes "Scientists say they may have discovered a way to develop cool new vaccines — and they mean that literally. By replacing essential genes in a mammalian pathogen with their counterparts from Arctic bacteria, they have created strains that provoke a protective immune response in mice, but that don't spread to the warm parts of the body where they could do serious harm. The team hopes that the method will lead to a new generation of vaccines for major bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis."
Re:Trivia Time (Score:3, Funny)
Interesting bit of trivia.... the human testicles are designed to allow the production of baby gravy (technical term.. look it up) at colder temperatures.
Oh, I get it... You saw a kdawson article and the first thing you thought of was junk.
Re:Trivia Time (Score:5, Funny)
"bearing in mind that evolution doesn't select for comedic value"
One look at the duck billed platypus will tell you that's a damn lie.
Re:Dude... ever hear of the Inuit? (Score:4, Funny)
total population 150,000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit [wikipedia.org]
Yeah. don't they make Quicken?