inactivate
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Some batches did not fully inactivate the virus, and in 1955 the vaccine resulted in 10 deaths and 200 vaccine-related cases of polio paralysis.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Pasteurization and proper cooking techniques inactivate the virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
This will normally involve the screening of the donor and donated milk, similarly to blood donations, and pasteurisation to inactivate viruses and other microorganisms.
From Salon ● Apr. 24, 2024
Pasteurization should also inactivate flu viruses, which are known to be fragile and heat-sensitive, experts said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 23, 2024
Extracts in which no attempt was made to inactivate the enzymes present proved unsatisfactory.
From Myology and Serology of the Avian Family Fringillidae A Taxonomic Study by William B. Stallcup
When the researchers inactivated this particular group of neutrophils, the immune response became unbalanced.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 8, 2026
That means someone inherits two copies of an inactivated gene.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 12, 2026
Use of gene therapies becomes more challenging as patients age and grow, because treating them often requires higher doses of the inactivated viruses used to deliver the replacement genes.
From Barron's ● Nov. 25, 2025
While some vaccines use an inactivated virus to trigger an immune response, mRNA vaccines work by teaching cells how to make proteins that can trigger an immune response.
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2025
If a mutation inactivated even one function, the mold would be unable to grow—unless the missing ingredient was supplied back into the broth.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
The ubiquitination of cGAS also marks it for destruction, effectively inactivating the sentinel once the threat of an invader has been neutralized.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 28, 2024
Phosphorylation adds a phosphate group to serine, threonine, and tyrosine residues in a protein, changing their shapes, and activating or inactivating the protein.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
Ultraviolet germicidal irradiation, the placement of UV-C lamps in the air ducts or above dropped ceilings, is extremely effective at inactivating the coronavirus and influenza viruses and even tuberculosis bacteria.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 3, 2022
Now the newer study contends that inactivating the virus in the mouth’s saliva and mucous membranes could help reduce infection in the adjoining nasopharyngeal area, too.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 24, 2022
Both vaccines are based on inactivating the entire virus, a classic approach not used for leading candidate vaccines in the West.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 14, 2021
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