Bird Flu
New "Checkmate" Method from the Scripps Research Institute Provides Powerful New Tool for Preventing Spread of Future Epidemics
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, August 5th, 2007
Scientists from The Scripps Research Institute have developed a breakthrough methodology that can be used to rapidly predict how viruses such as avian influenza H5N1, a dangerous strain of "bird flu," will mutate in response to attacks by the immune system. The new approach, dubbed "checkmate analysis," may also predict which antibodies or small molecule therapeutics will best neutralize these viral mutations before they can develop into global epidemics.
In a high-powered collaboration, Richard A. Lerner, president of The Scripps Research Institute, Sydney Brenner, recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Medicine and a faculty member of The Salk Institute for Biological...
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