A group of scientists in North America have developed a delivery system for an oral vaccine that could spell the end of disease-ravaged shrimp ponds and billions of dollars in lost harvests.
The solution US-based Pebble Labs has come up with uses what it refers to as "transbiotics": essentially the production of double stranded ribonucleic acid (RNA) inside naturally occurring bacteria that are delivered to the shrimp and remain in their gut over the production cycle of the animal, protecting them from disease, Richard Sayre, the company's chief scientific officer tells IntraFish.
