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Report: Singapore researchers develop gene-based asthma vaccine.
2004 AUG 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Singapore researchers have developed an asthma vaccine using a dust mite gene, a newspaper reported.
Most asthma sufferers in tropical and subtropical countries are allergic to dust mites, the Straits Times said.
A 20-member research team at the National University of Singapore has finished testing the vaccine on mice, the report said.
The researchers had removed a gene from dust mites and injected it into mice, which were later found to be immune to asthma-causing allergens, the paper quoted team leader Chua Kaw Yan as saying.
"When injected into the muscle cell of ...
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