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"When we inactivate these neurons, the mice become hyper distractable," Kothari said.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 24, 2026

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

“I also want to just stress that there’s nothing, there’s no cooking of the mushroom or freezing of the mushroom that would inactivate the toxin,” Smollin said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2026

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

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

"We discovered that, in conditions of high blood pressure, the lateral parafacial region is activated and, when our team inactivated this region, blood pressure fell to normal levels."

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 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

The other main form of polio vaccine is given by injection and contains inactivated polio virus.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2024

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

Cancer geneticist Alberto Bardelli of the University of Turino and colleagues went further by deliberately inactivating a mismatch repair gene in tumor-bearing mice.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 19, 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