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Media releases, New Zealand

A clean, safe vaccine booster

Most vaccines need a ‘magic’ booster or adjuvant to boost our immune response to the vaccine. But the best adjuvants are too toxic for human use.

Now NZ scientists believe they have created a powerful and safe adjuvant and are trialling it as part of a new cancer vaccine.

Media releases, New Zealand

Counting viruses and mustering molecules

How many viruses are there in your blood? How many dangerous nano-particles in your car exhaust?

qViro is a revolutionary New Zealand invention that offers the potential to quickly and cheaply answer these questions. It’s a feature of Ausbiotech – the national biotechnology conference – being held in Melbourne today.

The beta version is the size of a coffee grinder and can muster and count the number of viruses in a sample in minutes. This is a truly portable, desktop instrument that is powered from the USB drive of a computer.

Its competitors are the size of washing machines, may take days to get a result, or cost upwards of $50,000.

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