Scientists in the US say they have developed an mRNA-based vaccine that encompasses all 20 known subtypes of influenza that could form the basis ... and death. A universal flu vaccine could ...

A jab that protects against every form of flu could be available ... “This could actually become a vaccine in five years or less.” Current flu vaccines target proteins that protrude from ...

Scientists in the US have developed a new universal form of influenza vaccine that ... do away with the annual scramble to match shots to circulating flu strains. The team led by researchers ...

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his ...

This is particularly true because the seasonal flu vaccine spurs the production of antibodies that recognize an especially mutable part of the virus. For decades, scientists have been trying to ...

Genetics-based "one-and-done" vaccines for the flu and COVID-19 could prove more ... "This could be the universal vaccine that we have been looking for," Hai added in a university news release.

This new vaccine approach, described May 1 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, is part of a 5-year-old effort to develop a longer-lasting universal flu vaccine that would be able to foil ...

However, some researchers are getting closer to creating the ever-elusive universal flu vaccine, which could protect against a number of influenza viruses at once, including pandemic strains. If ...

So, targeting the stem instead of the head could be the right path toward a universal flu vaccine. The vaccine used in the Nature study used nanoparticles from swine flu to latch onto the stem of ...