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MedImmune Licenses Reverse Genetics Technology to Hungary's Omninvest for Use in Influenza Vaccine Development and Production
October 29th, 2008
MedImmune announced that it has licensed its proprietary reverse genetics intellectual property to Omninvest, a Hungarian research and manufacturing company, to support the development and construction of new vaccine strains to produce non-live human influenza vaccines. Reverse genetics is a method by which viruses such as influenza can be generated from segments of DNA. For potential pandemic influenza vaccines, reverse genetics can be a useful technology because the process does not require manufacturers to work directly with potentially highly infectious pandemic strains, such as H5N1, rather only with segments of the virus's genome. This announcement marks the second agreement of this...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2008-10-29)
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