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 Home > Improve Vaccines Cure Infection and Limit Drug Resistance
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Improving delivery and stability of vaccines, as well as making them quicker and easier to administer, may one day save hundreds of thousands of young lives.
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Recent advances in medical research and technologies have the potential to help scientists move forward in the design and evaluation of new vaccines.
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The sequencing of the genomes of insects and the pathogens they transmit provide new possibilities for developing chemical and genetic strategies to stop insects from passing on diseases.
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Poor nutrition is a major global health problem. A promising long-term solution is to genetically modify crops that grow well in harsh climates so that they contain high levels of essential nutrients.
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Developing drugs that target different components of a pathogen and finding new ways to deliver them in the body may one day minimize drug resistance.
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Using new knowledge and technologies, scientists are working on therapies that may one day help cure infections such as HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis.
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Inadequate or expensive diagnostic tests to identify the cause of illness coupled with incomplete medical records can impede work in the developing world to target resources and disease control efforts.
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