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A step toward a universal flu vaccine – MIT News
Researchers are working to design a universal flu vaccine that could work against any flu strain. A new vaccination strategy from MIT, the Ragon Institute, and …
Each year, the flu vaccine has to be redesigned to account for mutations that the virus accumulates, and even then, the vaccine is often not fully protective for everyone.
Researchers at MIT and the Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH, and Harvard are now working on strategies for designing a universal flu vaccine that could work against any flu strain. In a study appearing today, they describe a vaccine that triggers an immune response against an influenza protein segment that rarely mutates but is no…
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