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:And... (Score:4, Insightful)
What could go wrong?
Jenny McCarthy could open her trap and say it causes autism for one thing.
Dude... ever hear of the Inuit? (Score:4, Insightful)
total population 150,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuit [wikipedia.org]