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Polio vaccine contains the inactivated polio virus, this sometimes showing negative effect on the children, who got administered. Now, the scientists from the US and UK are trying to develop a wholly artificial vaccine to combat polio.

Their version is to prepare the vaccine by using the viral genome artificially rather than using tiny or inactivated portion of actual virus.

Researcher Dave Stuart said that the idea behind the synthetic vaccine is that it contains no genome as it's virus free and so it's made, in a way, like a super-chemical, a complicated chemical, that assembles itself to look like the virus but has no way of ever replicating.

Stuart, added that early results with polio are very promising, with synthetic particles being produced and evidence of successful stabilisation.

It is to be welcomed if this experiment or research comes into reality, since the developing nations are still fighting to eradicate polio. Pakistan has the highest percentage of polio case in the world.

-Kannamsai