One Shot Could Provide All the Vaccines You'll Ever Need

Hate needles? Researchers may have found a way to combine all the vaccines you'll ever need into a single shot. Here's how it works.

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One vaccine injection could carry many doses
http://news.mit.edu/2017/one-vaccine-injection-could-carry-many-doses-0914
"MIT engineers have invented a new 3-D fabrication method that can generate a novel type of drug-carrying particle that could allow multiple doses of a drug or vaccine to be delivered over an extended time period with just one injection."

How Cow Antibodies Are Helping Scientists Develop an HIV Vaccine
https://www.seeker.com/health/medicine/how-the-immune-response-of-cows-is-helping-scientists-develop-an-hiv-vaccine
"Researchers have long sought to develop an effective HIV vaccine. Several treatments have undergone clinical trials, but the only one that's been even slightly successful, a 2009 study in Thailand, lowered HIV infection rates by only 30 percent. But scientists haven't given up hope."

HPV Vaccine Shows Great Promise in Fighting Cancer
https://www.seeker.com/health/medicine/hpv-vaccine-shows-great-promise-in-fighting-cancer
"A vaccine for an extremely common sexually transmitted disease - human papillomavirus, or HPV - is making big strides in the war against cancer. A drug branded as Gardasil 9 could prevent 90 percent of cervical and vaginal cancers, 90 percent of HPV-related anal cancer and genital warts, and around 78 percent of cervical diseases, according to a new study published last week in the British medical journal Lancet."

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