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Building a Better Vaccine

A few months AGO, when researchers analyzed the genome of the devastating 1918 influenza, they found it to be a direct descendant of a common bird-flu strain, with just a few…

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Vaccine Patch Nano-Pinpoints Flu Inoculation

After yesterday's announcements by the World Health Organization, calling swine flu "unstoppable" and noting that there might not be enough vaccine produced by the time flu…

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Tobacco May Keep Us from Catching the Flu

Cigarettes kill more than four million people a year, but a cousin of the tobacco plant could help protect the rest of us from a major flu pandemic. This February, Darpa, the…

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H1N1 Finding Could Lead to Universal Flu Vaccine

It is said that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, and a group of researchers at Emory University and the University of Chicago are putting that mantra to the test in…

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Laser Light Could Make Flu Vaccine 7 Times More Effective

When you get a vaccine, it's typically injected into the muscle below the skin with a needle. But vaccines administered through the skin can use smaller pin-prick methods…

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New Antibody Fights Several Flu Strains At Once

Illustration showing an influenza virus attaching to a cell membrane via the surface protein, hemagglutininCSIRO via Wikimedia CommonsResearchers have recently discovered a unique antibody that can...

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