> Inovio Pharmaceuticals ($INO) said a Phase I trial of its avian flu vaccine SynCon generated HAI titers against six different strains of H5N1, presenting a possible development path for a universal flu vaccine. Inovio release
> Bionor Pharma's universal influenza vaccine, Vacc-Flu, reduced serious flu symptoms by 25% in an animal study. Bionor release
> The U.S. is reaching out to Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization to help with development of vaccines to combat bioterrorism. Article
> 10 promising therapeutic vaccines to watch. Article
And Finally... IBM, which developed JEOPARDY! champion Watson, is donating half of the supercomputer's $1 million in winnings to Scripp Research Institute to conduct malaria research. Release