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Africa moves towards creating and manufacturing its own vaccines

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The Future of Protein Medicine

We chose two types of shapes one shape is like a disc with a hole in the middle and that can be very useful for sensing because you can detect when compounds go through the pore. We're interested in those shapes because we and our colleagues have recently designed vaccines actually that have been clinically approved really the first designed protein medicines. I coffeeed her a bit like diamonds on steroids they've got lots of corners is it? They're like soccer balls yeah. Ah so you're sticking vaccine units onto the outside onto the faces or onto the corners. That's right we can take the major influenza protein and put it on the corners and get strong immune responses. But there's still far more to

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