Hey everyone, I was scrolling around and saw a new update from MindWalk Holdings (NASDAQ: HYFT). They’re working on a project aiming for a universal flu shot, and they’re claiming they found something important about how the flu virus works.
The flu keeps changing every year, which is why vaccines have to keep getting updated. MindWalk says they found a core rule the flu virus has to follow to infect people, even when the virus mutates. Their approach isn’t about searching for the same exact genetic code across strains. It’s more like looking for the parts of the virus that can’t change without it losing the ability to function.
They tested this across a bunch of different flu groups and said the same pattern showed up in:
Influenza A (including H3N2, plus bird flu types H5, H7, H9, and swine-linked H1N1)
Influenza B (both Victoria and Yamagata types)
They also explained their plan from here: keep doing more lab work to validate it further, then if the results keep holding up they want to license the program to a large pharma company or partner with one (since the later-stage development and rollout usually needs big funding and infrastructure).
I couldn't give names but im certain others have been also trying to solve this so how does HYFT play up to that? On paper this update seems nice but am i reading too much into this?