Smithfield Foods taps Montco animal health firm to save its bacon

MBF Therapeutics Inc., a Montgomery County company developing DNA-based immunotherapeutic vaccines for animals, has signed an agreement with Smithfield Foods to collaborate on new swine vaccines. Their goal is to develop swine vaccines with the potential to reduce the use of antibiotics in pork production and chronic disease in pigs by eliciting responses in both T-cells and B-cells. Vaccine candidates will be based on MBF's proprietary gene-based, T-cell directed vaccine platform and nove l calcium…
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