Key points from article :
Flu virus continually shape-shifts from year to year.
Current flu vaccine is an inactivated virus based on a prediction of what next year’s flu virus is going to look like.
DNA vaccines inject a genetic code for proteins from the virus into our own cells.
Our cells then produce the viral proteins, antigens, that make the immune response.
Successfully tested in monkeys in a situation similar to the 2009 influenza pandemic.
First universal vaccine will come to market in 5 to 10 years.
