>> Friends for the new year.
That’s what I say. Yep sounds
like a dream for many teenagers.
>> There’s a vaccine for acne.
Will now local researchers say.
Yeah they’re one step closer to
making this a reality.
>> These are the scientists at
UC San Diego who say that
they’ve created this vaccine
that reduces inflammation. So it
zeroes in on the bacterial
enzyme that causes acne without
affecting beneficial skin.
Bacteria We spoke to one of the
researchers who says it all
started by looking into why some
people develop acne when we all
have the same kind of bacteria
on our skin.
>> And why have we been able to
do is identify why one of these
component that’s pretty much
different between those bacteria
that cause acne and those that
don’t. And we found that this
one is a key component that
drives the acne disease. And
we’re talking with vaccine and
we’re talking with these drug to
be able to block it. And showing
that it has some fairly
promising results in terms of
blocking the disease here. Well,
the doctor says around 70 to 80%
of people develop acne at some
point in their life.
>> Most often during those
teenage years. As to when this
vaccine could become available,