A new influenza vaccine churned out by caterpillar cells prevents the flu, researchers say. The advance might eventually revolutionize the manufacture of flu vaccine, now produced in chicken eggs in a long, cumbersome process prone to contamination and other failures.
After successful safety tests, “this is the first time this … vaccine has been shown to protect people against the flu,” says John J.
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