Infectious disease: Poliovirus tweaked for safer vaccines
Infectious disease: Poliovirus tweaked for safer vaccines
Nature 529, 7585 (2016). doi:10.1038/529131b
Poliovirus has been genetically modified so that it can be used in vaccines without the risk of spreading the disease.Inactivated polio vaccine is currently made (pictured) using highly infectious strains of the virus. To guard against accidental release, the World Health Organization
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