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New Allergy Vaccine Shows Promise |
Scientists have raised the prospect of developing a vaccine to prevent children getting hay fever or asthma, by showing it is possible to inoculate against the allergies. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Rudolf Valenta and colleagues at the Medical University of Vienna describe how they made a vaccine against tree pollen using a genetically modified version of the same type of pollen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, August 2004 First Published in JULY 2005 Click here for more research on asthma |