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Vaccine breakthrough means no more chasing strains
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<blockquote data-quote="The IbanezerScrooge" data-source="post: 77644182" data-attributes="member: 380295"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains[/URL]</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>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. </em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>Peopleimages/iStock/Getty</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>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.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>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.</em></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><em>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 <a href="https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321170121" target="_blank">paper</a> published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The IbanezerScrooge, post: 77644182, member: 380295"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/15/vaccine-breakthrough-means-no-more-chasing-strains[/URL] [INDENT][I]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. [/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]Peopleimages/iStock/Getty[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]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.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]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.[/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I][/I][/INDENT] [INDENT][I]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 [URL='https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321170121']paper[/URL] published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. [/I][/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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