Flu vaccine – FAST

Translational Medicine had a paper by Dr Dormitzer from Novartis and Dr Venter of creating a flu vaccine in just about 4 days and 4 hours, as opposed to months and weeks that it used to take previously. They used the sequence supplied by Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority and transfecting it into tissue culture cells and then producing Hemagglutinin and Neuraminidase proteins. They proved that the antigens work in Ferrets producing protective immunity.
This is a big step for Immunology and Vaccine Biology.