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CytoDyn Receives Rapidly Updated DNA Flu Vaccine From the University of Massachusetts Medical School
Published in Vaccine Weekly, June 20th, 2007
The laboratory of Dr. Shan Lu at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) has provided CytoDyn, Inc. (Pink Sheets:CYDY) with updated DNA-based H1 and H3 serotype influenza vaccines for the 2007-2008 flu season. Updating of the DNA-based flu vaccines was completed in less than 1.5 months following a recommendation by the World Health Organization. It takes much longer to make an updated flu vaccine using the wild or natural virus, a technique that was developed in the nineteenth century and is still being used by the major vaccine providers.
CytoDyn will use both types of vaccines in clinical trials to evaluate the prime-boost method of vaccination invented...
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2007-06-20)
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