inactivate
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Meanwhile, Salk’s injectable vaccine, which used formalin to inactivate the virus, was approved in 1955.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
Pasteurization and proper cooking techniques inactivate the virus.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
In addition to the mice studies, the researchers also tested to determine which temperatures and time intervals inactivate H5N1 virus in raw milk from dairy cows.
From Science Daily ● May 24, 2024
Research so far has shown that virus particles end up in the milk of infected cows, but that pasteurization will inactivate the virus.
From Salon ● May 20, 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
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
But the test does not distinguish between live or inactivated virus, just that the RNA is present.
From Salon ● Jun. 5, 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 results highlight acidity as a key factor in inactivating the pathogen during cheesemaking.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
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
