According to the CDC, nearly 10,000 cases of Valley Fever are reported in the United States each year, mostly from Arizona and California. Fungal geneticist Dr. Marc Orbach has developed a vaccine against the incurable and sometimes fatal respiratory disease. Dr. Orbach, a professor of genetics and plant sciences, achieved the feat by removing just one gene from the fungus that causes this disease, creating a mutant spore that appears unable to cause disease but able to protect from it.
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