October 20, 2004

I like this!

How cool is this! So many lives would be saved and so many vaccine doses saved from getting wasted because this little invention.

Nature’s trick helps millions of children beat disease
Now a British company has devised a way of immortalising vaccines by wrapping them in sugar molecules and excluding water. The trick is used by plants, animals and by yeasts to survive when drought strikes. Some plant species, such as the Resurrection Plant, Selaginella lepidophylla, have come back to life after more than a century of hibernation just by adding water. “Within minutes or hours they turn back into active, fully-functioning plants,” Bruce Roser, of Cambridge Biostability, the company behind the development, said.

Posted by shanti at October 20, 2004 12:18 PM

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