Scientists in Scotland have been given an £80,000 grant to research a vaccine for one of the most deadly forms of meningitis.
Researchers at Aberdeen University are using a new technique which they hope will speed up attempts to find a vaccine for group B meningococcal meningitis.
This is the bug that causes between 50 and 60% of all meningococcal disease in the UK.
Most cases do not lead to lasting damage, but some can be fatal.
A vaccine has been developed to fight other forms of the bug, but for group C disease - the second most common form - this is not effective in very young children.
However, a new vaccine is being tested now and could be on the market within two years.
A vaccine for group B meningitis is proving more difficult to come by because of the complex make-up of the bug.
The scientists, led by Professor Hugh Pennington, say they hope their new technique, called proteome analysis, can speed up the search.
They want to find the proteins which the bug produces when it is in the human body.
They believe this may help them to isolate proteins which could be used to stimulate the immune system to develop resistance to the bug.
Up to now, scientists have been struggling to find a technique which is fast enough to catalogue the many proteins on the surface of the bacterium.

The militant, known only as Sahal, said sermons took place in the religiously-divided Sulawesi town of Poso.
“Mukhlas, who is sentenced to death for the Bali bombings, often gave teachings from the Kerobokan prison in Bali through his handphone to the congregation in Poso,” news agency Reuters quoted the police statement as saying.
It is not clear what message Mukhlas conveyed in the sermons, nor when they took place.
Observers say it is often easy to bribe corrupt prison guards in Indonesia to turn a blind eye, the agency reports.
Mukhlas has been moved, along with co-conspirators Amrozi and Imam Samudra, to a high-security jail off the Java coast.
The Bali bombings were blamed on the radical Islamic network Jemaah Islamiyah.
Imam Samudra wrote an autobiography after his arrest for the 2002 attacks, seeking to justify his role in the bombings.
The police statement was given at a meeting between Gen Sutanto and MPs in the wake of worsening violence on Sulawesi.
Security was stepped up last month after a shoot-out that left at least 12 people dead.
Schools were closed and extra police deployed in Poso.
Sulawesi has long been the scene of violence between Christians and Muslims.
Sporadic attacks between the two sides have continued despite a peace deal signed four years ago. More than 1,000 people were killed in violence between Muslim and Christian gangs between 1998 and 2001.

We are in the poorest part of Thailand, a forgotten backyard of muddy streams and rice fields which stretch as far as the eye can see.
Udon Thani is a drab place which only gets a fleeting mention in tourist guides. Yet, politically, the north east is very much on the map
This is the land of the red-shirts - the home turf of those activists demanding the dissolution of Thailand’s parliament and new elections.
They claim that the current government is illegitimate. It came to power on the back of the yellow-shirt demonstrations last year.
The red-shirts also accuse the country’s elite - the military, judiciary and other unelected officials - of undermining democracy by interfering in politics.
The Udon Lovers party is being held to celebrate the third birthday of the radio station but it is also a giant fundraiser.
Each table seating 10 costs 2,000 baht ($56) and for many people here that is a fortune - more than half of what they make in a month. Yet all 430 tables were sold out in advance. The money, says Kwanchai, will be used to hire buses to take thousands of red-shirted protesters to a big demonstration in Bangkok.
Away from the stage I came across Noong Lak, a demure lady in her 50s. She and her sister had made a long journey to join the festivities.

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Lending a touch of glamour to the evening were a host of stars from the film industry - Bollywood - including the biggest of them all, Amitabh Bachchan.

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India’s Hindu nationalist BJP has “dissociated” itself from a new book on Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah, written by a party leader.
Jaswant Singh’s book, Jinnah-India, Partition, Independence says that Mr Jinnah has been “demonised in India”.
The book also holds former PM Jawaharlal Nehru and the Congress party responsible for the partition of India.
Mr Jinnah is a controversial figure in India and considered the architect of the partition.

Two US reporters freed from detention in North Korea have been reunited with their families in Los Angeles.
Laura Ling and Euna Lee were pardoned after former US President Bill Clinton visited Pyongyang.
The two women had been found guilty of entering North Korea illegally in March and sentenced to 12 years hard labour.
US President Barack Obama praised Mr Clinton’s “extraordinary humanitarian effort” and said he hoped the reunited families would enjoy the coming days.
“The reunion we’ve all seen on television, I think, is a source of happiness not only for the families but also for the entire country,” Mr Obama added.

Friends and family of Michael Jackson have paid their last respects to the singer known as the King of Pop at a funeral ceremony outside Los Angeles.
Dame Elizabeth Taylor, actor Macaulay Culkin and music producer Quincy Jones were among the 200 invited guests.
Gladys Knight sang at the service while civil rights campaigner the Reverend Al Sharpton was one of the speakers.
The ceremony was due to begin at 0200 GMT at Glendale’s Forest Lawn Memorial Park but began more than an hour late.