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Alternative Swine Flu Vaccines
By Erica Westly | August 28, 2009
I’m working at Fast Company Magazine for the next few months. Here’s a link to my first blog post for them. It’s about a company called Protein Sciences that’s getting ready to take their insect cell-based swine flu vaccine to clinical trials. Most vaccines are still produced in chicken eggs, but several companies have been exploring cell-based methods, which are faster and produce higher vaccine yields. It’s a topic I’ve become quite interested in, so hopefully I’ll be writing about it again soon.
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