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…
View ArticleVaccine 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…
View ArticleTobacco 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…
View ArticleH1N1 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…
View ArticleLaser 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…
View ArticleNew 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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