A gene by any other name is not quite the same, and
scientists could exploit that fact to develop new vaccines for viral diseases,
research suggests.
By “misspelling” the genetic code of the virus that causes
polio so that the virus still reproduced but did so a thousand times slower
than normal, researchers created a weakened version of the virus that trained
mice’s immune systems to fight off the real one.
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