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1Victorian Endowment for Science, Knowledge, and Innovation (VESKI), Department of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Melbourne, Australia, 3800. gareth.forde@eng.monash.edu.au
Nature Biotechnology
|September 10, 2005
Abstract:
In responding to future influenza pandemics and other infectious agents, plasmid DNA overcomes many of the limitations of conventional vaccine production approaches.
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