New clues for flu vaccine design

new pre pandemic avian flu vaccine progress

Rationing the flu vaccine.

In October 2004, the CDC announced that Chiron Corporation, chief supplier of inactivated influenza vaccine for the United States for the 2004–2005 flu season, would not be providing the 50 million vaccinations it had promised—half of the anticipated 90–100 million doses from all sources projected for the flu season. The resultant shortage set off a firestorm of concern. Well known to health ca...

The quest for a H1N1 flu vaccine.

Strategy for approving a universal flu vaccine

New clues for organogenesis.

Organogenesis is a conventional research area in developmental biology. Recent research progresses on stem cell, epigenetics, no-coding RNA and other new properties of multicellular organisms have transformed the organogenesis research as a frontier of life science. The collection of six research papers in this issue aims to cover timely developments in the research area of organogenesis from b...