The successfulexpression of HEVORF2proteinin p. Pastoris and the production ofrecombinant protein provides basis for geneticallyengineeredvaccinedevelopment of hepatitis E.
Cantab Pharmaceuticals, a British biotechnology firm, has a geneticallyengineeredvaccine now in clinical trials to protect against herpes simplex infection and reduce the recurrence of genital herpes.
As part of a six-man experiment at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in 1987, he had himself injected four times with a geneticallyengineered malaria vaccine.
And a debate is raging as to whether or not to inoculate the public against smallpox or whether the vaccine would prove effective against geneticallyengineered strains of the virus.