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"Scientists at UC Riverside have demonstrated a new, RNA-based vaccine strategy
that is effective against any strain of a virus and can be used safely even by
babies or the immunocompromised.
Every year, researchers try to predict the four influenza strains that are most
likely to be prevalent during the upcoming flu season. And every year, people
line up to get their updated vaccine, hoping the researchers formulated the
shot correctly.
The same is true of COVID vaccines, which have been reformulated to target
sub-variants of the most prevalent strains circulating in the U.S.
This new strategy would eliminate the need to create all these different shots,
because it targets a part of the viral genome that is common to all strains of
a virus. The vaccine, how it works, and a demonstration of its efficacy in mice
is described in a paper published today in the
Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences.
“What I want to emphasize about this vaccine strategy is that it is broad,”
said UCR virologist and paper author Rong Hai. “It is broadly applicable to any
number of viruses, broadly effective against any variant of a virus, and safe
for a broad spectrum of people. This could be the universal vaccine that we
have been looking for.”"
Via Danny ter Haar and Christoph S.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
