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Podcast: Dr. Howard Smith Reports
Episode: Producing Stronger Vaccines Faster By Harnessing Bacteria
Description: Vidcast:Â https://www.instagram.com/p/DUmSfKQDoQz/Genetically modifying bacteria using AI-refined DNA leads to production of vaccines with 8-fold higher immunogenicity in a time-frame even 5 times shorter than even the speedy mRNA technology. Microbiologists at the University of Virginia and Duke University now report this proof-of-concept in the journal Vaccines.This novel approach utilizes inactivated bacteria programmed with synthetic DNA instructions to produce new, highly effective vaccine antigens in about 3 weeks. The DNA design is guided by AI protein-structure modeling. The resultant vaccines are stable a...