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.