A stable vaccine for malaria

Malaria kills half-a-million people annually. In this “Weizmann in Focus” video, Dave Doneson explains that current anti-malaria vaccines break down in hot climates. However, scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute redesigned the protein RH5 to enable the vaccine to be stored at room temperature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfcjyr94GM0

http://www.weizmann.ac.il/WeizmannCompass/sections/students/adi-goldenzweig

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