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Molecular 3D bioprinting could mean getting drugs through email

Monday, October 22, 2012 - 3:14pm

What happens when you combine advances in 3D printing with biosynthesis and molecular construction? Eventually, it might just lead to printers that can manufacture vaccines and other drugs from scratch: email your doc, download some medicine, print it out and you're cured.

Hepatitis C vaccine discovered

Travis Andrews

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 10:54am

This reminds me of that old riddle: What took ten years to develop and could potentially save around 350,000 lives a year from an often asymptomatic infectious disease that generally attacks (and causes cirrhosis of) the liver?

New technique 'disarms' HIV, could lead to AIDS vaccine

Evan Ackerman

Monday, September 26, 2011 - 6:44am

Part of what makes HIV such a nasty virus is that it attacks our immune system, which is what we have around to keep viruses from attacking us. We may have just figured out how to keep HIV from exploiting our immune response, meaning that our bodies could fight it off just like any other virus.

Genetically modified radishes help produce acne vaccine

Evan Ackerman

Friday, September 23, 2011 - 11:47am

In the long, long list of reasons why people are miserable in high school, acne is often pretty close to the top. Of course, we here at DVICE, being tech nerds, were obviously very popular despite our spotty faces, but for the rest of you, a vaccine for acne may be finally on the way.

A long-term, universal flu shot is in the works

Wednesday, July 27, 2011 - 12:55pm

You generally have to get a flu shot every year, as the vaccine needs to be updates to take on the specific mutations of the virus that are floating around that season. But researchers are working on a new flu vaccine that would last for years.

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Molecular 3D bioprinting could mean getting drugs through email

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