
by Sarah Ives, Distributed Bio., a startup that does Computational immunology at SynBioBeta today.
“1 in a million vaccines will hit the conserved epitope (the part of the target pathogen that does not evolve and change year after year). This is why you need a new flu vaccine each year. Attempts to hit the conserved epitope fail from overfitting.”
"If we succeed, it’s the last flu shot you’ll ever need. Should also work with HIV, Zika, even weaponized smallpox"
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