In a note to investors, Stephen Brozak, an analyst at WBB Capital who has covered Geron on-and-off longer than perhaps any other analyst, wrote that the deal could be "potentially the validation" of the telomerase vaccine technology.

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Some of what sub-Saharan Africa needs is new technology, like a malaria vaccine.

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In 2001, Serum Institute decided to venture out of its traditional childhood vaccines with known technology and develop a new vaccine of great need in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Scientists at MVP - a partnership between the World Health Organization and the Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - believe their vaccine could help to save thousands of lives each year.

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The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.

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Its technology fuses bacterial proteins with part of the flu virus so that the vaccine can be made much more cheaply.

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The genome has been sequenced several times over, and we have the technology to synthesize parts of the virus if we really need it for vaccine design.

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