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Vaccine developed for farm disease

May 20th, 2013 / / categories: science lab /

A vaccine to protect sheep and cattle from a livestock virus spread by midges has been approved by government vets.

Parasitic wasps switch off the immune systems of fruit flies by draining calcium from the flies’ blood cells, a finding that offers new insight into how pathogens break through a host’s defenses. Researchers say their findings have uncovered an important component of cellular immunity, one that parasites have learned to take advantage of.


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