Part of the problem was a mismatch between the influenza strains circulating and the vaccine available. Here’s how annual flu shots are formulated.
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New genetic technologies are letting us look at flu evolution right where it starts: within individual people, while they’re sick.
Flu virus mutates so quickly that one year’s vaccine won’t work on the next year’s common strains. But a new way to create vaccines, called ‘rational design,’ might pave the way for more lasting solutions.
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Associate Member, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Affiliate Associate Professor of Genome Sciences and Microbiology, University of Washington
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Professor Emerita of Biology, Indiana University
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Ph.D. Student in Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University
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Doctoral Student in Genome Sciences, University of Washington
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Ph.D. Candidate in Chemical & Physical Biology, Vanderbilt Vaccine Center, Vanderbilt University