A new silk road to replace the old cold chain

Infectious diseases kill tens of millions of people each year, especially in developing nations. Yet nearly half the entire world’s supplies of vaccines are lost – ruined - every year simply by warming up to "room temperature."  Keeping vaccines and antibiotics cold is estimated to cost health agencies $200 - $300 million yearly to maintain an elaborate, global ‘cold chain’ that must not be broken for these biologicals to survive. In reality, too many...