A local firm aims to make a hepatitis B vaccine but draws opposition from using genetically modified corn
John A. Howard of Cayucos has an ambitious, even noble goal — to produce
an affordable and easy-to-administer vaccine for hepatitis B.
But there is one problem.
In order to produce this vaccine, Howard, 63, and his Cal Poly-based firm Applied Biotechnology Institute are experimenting with genetically engineered corn that he hopes will contain the traits for a hepatitis B vaccine.
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