Sentence examples for dead virus from inspiring English sources

The vaccine uses a "noninfectious" form of the virus, he said, declining to discuss whether the vaccine would be using dead virus or an attenuated, or weakened, strain.

There are two kinds of licensed flu vaccines: an inactivated kind made with dead virus and one prepared with live "attenuated" virus.

Unlike injections that use a dead virus, FluMist is made from a live but weakened virus, meaning that it is too risky for those with asthma or other chronic diseases, including heart, lung and kidney problems, or cancer and AIDS patients, or pregnant women.

Flu vaccines stimulate the production of antibodies against pieces of dead virus.

Vaccines are usually some form of a weakened or dead virus grown from living tissue cultures and injected into the bloodstream.

The vaccine for children contains a weakened form of the live flu virus which is sprayed up the nose whereas the traditional flu jab contains dead virus and is injected in the arm.

Until recently, the tools of molecular biology were expensive, and few people had access to them — not to mention the ability to resurrect dead viruses or build new ones.

Such nasal discharges are composed of dead viruses that were killed by the body's defenses, dead white blood cells that were killed as a result of the infection, and a liquid substance known as mucus which the body deploys as a vehicle to remove this dead matter.

If you take a conventional over-the-counter drug for the common cold, these drugs "work" by reducing the body's ability to create mucus, which simply inhibits the body's own efforts to eliminate the dead viruses from the body.

Viruses can have exotic properties: they can replicate in dead cells, repair radiation-damaged hosts, or recombine with other dead viruses and generate an intact cell [ 105– 105].

Yet Schwarzenegger came on board as both actor and producer after reading the script, playing against type as a protective father who fights to save his adolescent daughter when she becomes infected with a walking-dead virus.