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Published online 22 July 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020715-16
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Eat up your vaccine
Plant extracts provide measles immunity on a plate.
Lettuce might replace booster shots in the next generation of vaccines. Researchers have raised the immunity of mice to measles by feeding them a booster vaccine derived from plants1.
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