{"id":180294,"date":"2024-01-11T15:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/searching-for-vaccine-variability-in-the-land-of-the-flu"},"modified":"2024-01-11T15:23:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T21:23:55","slug":"searching-for-vaccine-variability-in-the-land-of-the-flu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/searching-for-vaccine-variability-in-the-land-of-the-flu","title":{"rendered":"Searching for vaccine variability in the land of the flu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/searching-for-vaccine-variability-in-the-land-of-the-flu2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Part 2:<\/em><\/strong><em> This is the second of a three-part series on how Stanford Medicine researchers are designing vaccines that protect people from not merely individual viral strains but broad ranges of them. The ultimate goal: a vaccine with coverage so broad it can protect against viruses never before encountered.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/scopeblog.stanford.edu\/2024\/01\/08\/better-vaccine-multiple-strains-closer-to-universal\/\">series opener<\/a> focused on why having vaccines that cover not just one strain of a single virus, but many, could be an invaluable advance. Although Part 1 focused on the COVID-19-causing SARS-CoV-2 as a textbook example, that strain-spewing microbe is just one of many viruses to worry about.<\/p>\n<p>Take, for instance, the old steady: influenza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part 2: This is the second of a three-part series on how Stanford Medicine researchers are designing vaccines that protect people from not merely individual viral strains but broad ranges of them. The ultimate goal: a vaccine with coverage so broad it can protect against viruses never before encountered. The series opener focused on why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}