Quitting Smoking May Be as Easy as a Vaccine Shot

Cornell researchers, reporting in the journal Science Translational Medicine, have developed a one-shot anti-nicotine vaccine that works in mice. Ron Winslow has details on The News Hub. Photo: AP.

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... the ... well well quitting baseball quitting smoking be as easy ... as getting shots that are wrongly Winslow all the science test joining us on this that ... Ron was love it when you come on show is without substance great science knowledge ... long been Intel a lot of people ... a lot of this ... kind of ... quitting nice which is very hostile offer people ... these just diseases can see will show ... well that's us or the hope of of this research group and Cornell ... that is ... devised to ... essentially gene therapy kind of vaccine ... and they have managed to Lincoln ... the genetic sequence for an everybody ... for nicotine the roadblocks that would bind up nicotine when it comes into the bloodstream ... and ... they get the genie in the liver ... that produces these antibodies are strongly so ... um ... so you go through this no no never ending supply ... of them and and when nicotine can into the bloodstream ... it sort of like a pack and Goebbels up ... and prevented from getting to the brand ... this is all done in mice ... it's all still pretty early so that's great investment if you want your mouse to stop smoking weed out some of us has a ... lot of yelling up a cigarette taxes even a little ... bit less than that but ... what you are minding my summary different officer Grandma some innate there enough butter in small as the chosen to do more to give this more research in mice and probably ... in nonhuman ... primates and then ... Renault right people in the big challenge ... um run crystal who's the researcher at ... Cornell who is ... leading this effort effort ... says the challenge determine whether ... you can actually make enough of these antibodies in a human ... to block went to the nicotine in school ... it's consuming regular smoking ... so only know that yet and ... you know it's a pretty big challenge because there's lots of other vaccine attempts or move a different technology than this ... North Korea was the only reason we ... good animal did early on ... not so good and humans when you're sort of use one vaccine ousting vaccine a stop to getting a disease but right but smoking is not considered a disease that incentive choice that's right and not a virus that that that ... you know it from it's a molecule now and it's a small molecule ... um which means ... you know it ... um well among other things it's very small it gets and what Sweden so the immune system doesn't see it ... and so the strategy and some of the others ... art and design to link up ... the ... an antibody ... for bigger and bigger molecule with the nicotine receptors so you don't get it that so that the Apostle and can cross the blood brain barrier ... and that it can get into the brain and into the country ... and I'm astounded that some nicotine can be more addictive than heroin with some people I mean is the isthe palm and Anja is very Gopalan firm Challenger mean ... you know we did caused when ... her ... brush with ... the message about ... how smoking is ... one cancerous ... on ... respiratory diseases heart disease ... one in five deaths ... in the US are related to smoking ... and of ... knowing people ... and bought twenty percent of adults still smoke ... weed lot you know it's been it's come down significantly last several decades now but still twenty percent population and even when I like here in York that the well of a time of the Magdalene will be giving these factors are very valuable to a well ... thank you my much always applies only when headwinds love long now on the vs day don't come and in tomorrow's paper you will not wanna miss that ...