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Madison company says it’s made an egg-free swine flu vaccine (Wisconsin State Journal)

FluGen, a Madison company based on research by UW-Madison scientist Yoshihiro Kawaoka, has produced swine flu vaccine without using eggs, the company announced Thursday. The companyâ??s use of cell lines to grow vaccine against the H1N1 virus is an alternative to the egg-based method used by most manufacturers, which has been blamed in part for the current shortage of vaccine.