inactivate

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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

China has instead relied on less effective, traditional vaccines made with inactivated coronaviruses.

From Science Magazine

A decade after the virus’s discovery, in 1966, four clinical trials tested an inactivated virus vaccine in children who had never encountered RSV before.

From Scientific American

Another gene was also inactivated to prevent the pig’s heart from continuing to grow after it was implanted.

From New York Times

The kidney and heart came from a company called Revivicor, which has genetically altered pigs to inactivate genes that could trigger a human body to reject an organ.

From The Verge