EU ANTI-VIRAL RESEARCH – MULTI-STRAIN ANTI-VIRUS VACCINE
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
SCIENTISTS in a European Union (EU) funded research project claim they are making headway in developing a broad-based influenza vaccine "that may even help to eradicate the disease amongst humans". This
Universal Vaccine team of British, Belgian, Swedish and Dutch researchers is targeting a part of the M2 protein (M2e), which has remained relatively constant in influenza strains identified since 1933. The Euro 1.2 million project is now developing a broad-spectrum vaccine against all influenza A subtypes, training anti-bodies to ...
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