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Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by University of Nebraska–Lincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team.

And this breakthrough could also help protect against swine flu and even avian flu. Not everyone likes getting shots, especially Eric Weaver. "I don't like getting the flu shot.

New research results from mouse and swine studies, describe a vaccine that protects against H1N1 swine flu and can also protect against human and bird influenza variants. Post-experiment ...

In the swine study, four groups of five pigs were vaccinated with Epigraph, wild type, commercial or sham vaccines. Functional antibodies were measured against four swine flu clades, including the ...

Like a camera-shy teenager, influenza’s ribonucleoprotein (RNP) complex turns away whenever researchers point the camera at it. The RNP complex is extremely flexible, so scientists have ...

The broader impact of the 2024-25 flu season has been equally severe, with CDC estimates indicating at least 47 million illnesses, 610,000 hospitalizations and 26,000 deaths across all age groups.

Moderna’s mRNA-based flu and covid-19 vaccine could provide the best of both worlds—if it’s actually ever approved by the Food and Drug Administration. This week, ...

One ring to bind them all. Using state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy, the research team was able to decipher the structure.To do this, the membrane proteins were shock-frozen in a solution ...