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Vaccines: Where The Rubber Meets The Road

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Even if you've taken a side in the debate over vaccines, you will probably want to hear Dr. Andrea Ferrante out. 

Ferrante is an assistant professor of biology at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, and he's just received a grant to study the molecular processes that make vaccines work. 

If your first response is "huh?"... consider this: the creator of vaccines, Edward Jenner, had no idea WHY vaccines worked, and even today's scientists have plenty of questions.  Hence Dr. Ferrante's quest, which he details in a chat with The Exchange. 

 

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Geoffrey Riley is a graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism and has hosted the Jefferson Exchange on JPR since 2009. He's been a broadcaster in the Rogue Valley for more than 35 years, working in both television and radio.