Designing a universal flu vaccine by focusing on the immune system
A universal flu vaccine that can foster protection to people against any influenza strain is considered a goal in flu research as it could spare scientists from the often erroneous process of predicting the circulating strains each year and redesigning the vaccine to match them.
A group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Ragon Institute, and Bristol Myers Squibb has thrown light on a possible strategy for developing a universal flu vaccine by aiming at a more stable region of the influenza virus is normally not targeted by the immune system.
In mice, a vacci...
