A New Approach to Combatting HIV
March 6, 2008 | Source: Technology Review
University of Michigan researchers have developed nanoemulsion vaccines–made up of tiny soybean oil droplets suspended in water, studded with bits of pathogenic organisms, and swabbed into the nose–that may be the vaccines of the future.
Previously proved effective against influenza and anthrax, they have now been shown to generate immunity to smallpox and HIV in mice.