Trailblazing GM vaccines ‘are held back by red tape’
16 May 2016
Red tape is hampering scientists from developing groundbreaking GM vaccines, it is claimed. Adrian Hill, of Oxford University, said that this was holding back research. “Because the vaccine is technically a GM organism, if we’re going to vaccinate someone in our clinic we need special permission, not to protect the person from the dangers of the vaccine but to protect from the potential risks of that microbe getting out and contaminating the environment,” he said. This was despite the fact, he added, that it would not survive.