Immune children in Tanzania aid malaria vaccine hunt.
A group of children in Tanzania who are naturally immune to malaria are helping scientists to develop a new vaccine.
US researchers
have found that they produce antibody that attacks the malaria-causing parasite.
Injecting a form
of this antibody into mice protected the animals from the disease.
The team which published its result in the journal science said trials in primates and humans were now needed to fully access the vaccine's promise.
Prof Jake Kurtis, director of the center of international health research at Rhode Island hospital brown university school of medicine said "I think there's fairly compelling evidence that this is a bonafide vaccine candidate"
A group of children in Tanzania who are naturally immune to malaria are helping scientists to develop a new vaccine.
US researchers
have found that they produce antibody that attacks the malaria-causing parasite.
Injecting a form
of this antibody into mice protected the animals from the disease.
The team which published its result in the journal science said trials in primates and humans were now needed to fully access the vaccine's promise.
Prof Jake Kurtis, director of the center of international health research at Rhode Island hospital brown university school of medicine said "I think there's fairly compelling evidence that this is a bonafide vaccine candidate"
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