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Closing in on SARS vaccine
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2003-12-29 15:19
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TORONTO: Canadian researchers are a step closer to finding a vaccine to fight the potentially fatal severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research said yesterday.
A team at McMaster University cloned the gene that contains an important protein of the SARS virus and then inserted it into a common cold virus. It will shortly test it on animals for protective effects.
"This is an important step that will allow us to immediately determine whether we can provide protection against this virus with proper immunization," said Jack Gauldie, chair of the department of pathology and molecular medicine, at McMaster University in Ontario.
Gauldie's team included professors Frank Graham, Mary Hitt and Jim Mahony of the department of pathology and molecular medicine, along with Professor Ludvik Prevec and Technologist Uma Sankar of the department of biology.
The McMaster team has also produced a second SARS vaccine candidate. |
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