Sentence examples for whole viruses from inspiring English sources

And it produces whole viruses that the immune system learns to attack.

Instead of growing whole viruses, Protein Sciences produces just a protein from the virus and it does so in genetically modified insect cells.

Samples need not be frozen, and because only bits of genetic material are multiplied rather than whole viruses, the work can be done in laboratories with lower biosecurity levels.

Most of the first AIDS vaccines tested in people were unlike the classic, successful vaccines for measles and polio, which use whole viruses, either killed or weakened, to turn on the immune response.

Whole viruses, or their embalmed remnants, aren't needed; here, the inoculum consists of a piece of DNA that encodes a gene or genes from the virus, and pieces of genetic machinery that turn on those viral genes in animal cells.

The recent development of SB has triggered the emergence of a growing community of amateur biologists wishing to apply SB technologies, assemble DNA or rebuild whole viruses in their mobile labs, garage or kitchen (Wohlsen 2011 Schmidt et al. 2009b).

"There has never been whole virus or killed H.I.V. virus used in uninfected humans.

They usually contain whole virus, not just the hemagglutin spike that attaches to cells.

This behaves like a Trojan horse and smuggles the DNA into cells, which then produce antibodies to wipe out the whole virus.

Dr. Laura C. Bowman, a pediatric oncologist at St . Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, said that if the therapy the children received was tainted, it was probably contaminated by genetic snippets of virus, not whole virus particles that could cause an infection.

That was because the company did not give details about how big a dose of the killed virus was in each shot, whether it was whole virus or just viral parts, and whether it used an immune system booster.