The technology is an influenza B vaccine virus “backbone” that would allow producers to grow vaccine viruses at high yield in mammalian cell culture rather than in eggs

We are not blank slates with regard to how susceptible we are to emerging strains of flu virus, researchers have discovered. The findings could provide relevant information for the development of a universal flu vaccine

The body’s ability to make an adaptable antibody suggests potential strategies for creating improved or even “universal” influenza vaccine

This is the first influenza virus identified in cattle

Researcher's new method is the first demonstration that one can accurately anticipate future seasonal influenza strains in the lab

Inexpensive method could slow spread of outbreak, future pandemic diseases

Vaccine protects against multiple different strains of H1N1 virus at once

Researchers behind the study hope that the discovery can be used to develop better treatment against influenza and chronic inflammation conditions such as rheumatoid arthritis.

Lab at McMaster University is one of only a handful in Canada that makes its own flu 

Vaccine protects chickens and likely other poultry against the three recently introduced U.S. avian influenza strains