NUS breakthrough for aquaculture: Oral vaccine protects fish from fatal nervous necrosis virus 3 (IMAGE)

National University of Singapore

NUS breakthrough for aquaculture: Oral vaccine protects fish from fatal nervous necrosis virus 3

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Professor Yang Daiwen (right) and Ms Hong Hui Yee (left) from the NUS Department of Biological Sciences generating the genetic material required for the vaccine. The novel oral fish vaccine was designed with two core biological components – an “imposter virus” to train the fish’s immune system and a bacterium which acts as a delivery vehicle.

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