Vaccines
Late Edition for 11 December 2015
Kyle Lockwood's silver fern wins the first flag referendum; response to the governments new cyber crime stategy; and in Dateline Pacific, a new vaccine for dengue fever. Audio
HPV vaccine change mulled, amid moves to lift use by girls
The Health Ministry is considering moving to a two-dose vaccine to protect girls against cervical cancer and genital warts. Our Health Correspondent, Karen Brown, reports. Audio
Science: flu vaccines
Dr Chris Smith on an artificial form of photosynthesis that can turn carbon dioxide into methane gas and Dutch scientists think they've found a vaccine that can protect from all sorts of different… Audio
Idan Ben-Barak - survivor's guide to the immune system
Idan Ben-Barak is the author of 'Why Aren't We Dead Yet? (published by Scribe). He explores the immune system and what keeps it running, how germs are destroyed and why we develop immunities to… Audio
Biobead Vaccines
Bacteria are being used as factories to produce tiny biobeads to mimic diseases in the body for vaccines Audio