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Sexually Transmitted Disease
Potato may offer protection against human papillomavirus
July 4th, 2002
Scientists are bellying up to the challenge of creating an edible vaccine to confer protection against human papillomavirus (HPV), one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases and the cause of virtually all cases of cervical cancer in women. Potatoes produced and tested by scientists at the University of Rochester, Cornell University and Tulane University provoked an immune response in mice that munched on the transgenic spuds. When enhanced with a substance derived from Escherichia coli to boost their effectiveness, the potatoes provoked the immune system in the same way thought to be necessary to protect humans from the virus. It's...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-07-04)
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