Vaccine hope for malaria
From the University of Nottingham we learn that Malaria infects around 400 million people every year and kills between one and three million, mostly children. Further researchers at The University of Nottingham believe they have made a significant breakthrough in the search for an effective vaccine. Using blood from a group of people with natural immunity to the disease, a team from the School of Biology refined and strengthened the antibodies using a new animal testing system which, for the first time, mimics in mice the way malaria infects humans. When injected into mice, these antibodies protected them against the disease. Hopefully we can move quickly from mice to poeple.