University team’s silica coats stop vaccines spoiling at room temperature
Asel Sartbaeva hopes her pioneering ensilication technology will be adopted to store and transport pediatric vaccines to low-income countries
Asel Sartbaeva from the University of Bath, UK, became interested in vaccines after the birth of her daughter in 2010. ‘I started discovering how many children do not have access to vaccines because they can’t be delivered,’ she says. ‘The numbers I was digging out were horrific.’