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
“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
Another option is to heat milk to sub-pasteurization temperatures, which could inactivate the virus while maintaining the raw milk cheese characteristics valued by artisanal producers.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
“The decision to inactivate comes after concerns about clinical processes and documentation were identified,” the hospital said in a statement.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 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
One is normal and functional, while the other has been inactivated by cellular metabolism.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 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
With such vaccines, called whole-virus vaccines, a person’s immune system is presented with the whole virus, often in weakened or inactivated form.
From Salon ● Sep. 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 results highlight acidity as a key factor in inactivating the pathogen during cheesemaking.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 21, 2025
The rapid assembly process means there’s virtually no free MVP left in a cell, making it difficult to investigate potential vault functions by targeting and inactivating the proteins.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 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
Finally, there is air disinfection: inactivating viruses using ultraviolet light.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 8, 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
