Nature: Special Report – Vaccines

Nature   
Volume 507 Number 7490 pp8-134  6 March 2014
http://www.nature.com/nature/current_issue.html

Outlook: Vaccines
Produced with support from: newventurefund, UNICEF, GAVI
:: Vaccines  Herb Brody

:: The age of vaccines  Tony Scully

:: Infectious disease: Beating the big three  Katherine Bourzac

:: Logistics: Keeping cool  Neil Savage

:: Drug development: Searching for patterns  Tom Paulson

:: Production: Vaccines from the East  Priya Shetty

:: Polio: The eradication endgame  Cassandra Willyard

:: Perspective: Elimination round  Andrew W. Artenstein & Gregory A. Poland

:: Public health: An injection of trust  Michael Eisenstein

:: Perspective: Ill prepared for a pandemic  Klaus Stöhr

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A predictive fitness model for influenza
Marta Łuksza & Michael Lässig
A computational approach for predicting the future evolution of the human influenza virus, based on population-genetic data of previous strains, is presented; this model holds promise for improving vaccine strain selection for seasonal influenza.