Because the payload can be delivered to areas where it’s needed rapidly— no special handling required— then applied to the skin by someone whose sophistication is limited to that of applying a Band-Aid… it becomes possible to address these major challenges that have long bedeviled the health care profession in delivering vaccines to underserved areas.

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These are all steps that will be required to translate the scientific findings into a commercially viable product, this is a challenge though not only for Kasia, but also in general in the U.S. for developing new vaccines.

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Kasia’s strategy is one that may help to get over the hump that has been classically bedeviling biomedical people in the U.S. to move something from the bench to the field without quite so many hurdles, the real-world [vaccine] application of this could potentially really have an impact, then I start daydreaming about other possibilities and if you can somehow add to the treatment of cancer or any other disease, adapting your technology in immunotherapies.

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