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Nature Biotechnology 25, 1343–1345 (1 December 2007) | doi:10.1038/nbt1207-1343

Biotech for your companion?

Jim Kling

In March, United Kingdom–based animal health firm Merial received conditional approval from the US Department of Agriculture, in Washington, DC, for a canine melanoma vaccine. This represents the first therapeutic cancer vaccine approved in the United States for any species, human or animal.