A familiar news topic during the flu season is the difficulties that the authorities face in producing enough flu vaccine fast enough to control the outbreak. That’s a serious enough problem, but when the influenza outbreak turns out to be the start of a global pandemic, then hundreds of millions of lives could be at risk. To combat this, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has developed a new way of making vaccines that has turned out 10 million doses of H1N1 influenza vaccine in a month, in a recent test run. .. Continue Reading DARPA produces 10 million flu vaccine doses in one month
Section: Science and Education
Tags: DARPA, H1N1, Influenza, Plants, Vaccines, Viruses and Bacteria
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