New process to make one-way flu vaccine discovered

Tuesday, December 18, 2012 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

A new process to make a one-time, universal influenza vaccine has been discovered. Researchers found a way to make the one-time vaccine by using recombinant genetic engineering technology that does not use a seasonal virus. Instead, the new vaccine uses a virus' small fragment that does not vary among the different strains of flu viruses.

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