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Subbarao and co-workers Kusum Paul and J. Manjula have been working on this project for the past three years. It is expected that it will take another year or two to fine-tune the technology and complete safety studies before the antivenin from poultry eggs could go for human clinical trials and subsequent approval for treatment of snakebite victims.
Sandip Basu, director of the National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi, describes the breakthrough as a "fine new technique having great potential."
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