Singapore Researchers Develop Asthma Vaccine… According to the July 12, 1004
Wall Street Journal, researchers in Singapore have developed an asthma vaccine
using a dust mite gene. The article says that researchers at the National
University of Singapore finished testing the vaccine on mice and said that it
could be available for human use in ten years if clinical trials are
successful. The article quotes the researchers as saying "Our data suggested
that DNA vaccination is a feasible approach to prevent and treat allergic
asthma and other allergic disorders."



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