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Confirmation of Bogoch Replikins Influenza Patents by Harvard-CDC and Scripps-Crucell Data
April 8th, 2009
Replikins, Ltd. announced that data recently published from Harvard-CDC and Scripps-Crucell in Nature(1) and Science(2) confirms the 2001 discoveries by Dr. Samuel and Elenore Bogoch of peptides in the hemagglutinin unit of influenza, which they named Replikins, which are shared across flu strains, conserved over time, associated with the last three pandemics of 1918, 1957 and 1968, as well as current H5N1 outbreaks, and are the basis of broad spectrum flu vaccines. The Replikins sequences, as specified by the Bogoches, are the subject of granted patents from 2001 and a 2005 monograph(3). The amino acid contact points between the neutralizing antibody and the virus that...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-04-08)
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