Sentences with phrase «for vaccinia»

Similarly, the entry for vaccinia, and even an essay on virology (one of 124 «windows» reviews by luminaries in their fields), mention smallpox without saying that it has been eradicated — one of the greatest achievements of medical science.

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Lederman, who says he's «obsessed» with Jenner and has been working on a biography of the scientist for 20 years, is convinced that Jenner's original vaccine, now named vaccinia, was derived from a virus circulating in horses, not cows, as folklore has it.

Today vaccines (vaccinia is Latin for «cowpox») of all forms save 3 million lives per year worldwide, and at a bargain price.

Both assays (for translation enhancement and internal ribosomal initiation) were validated under cell - free conditions and in human cells, using a vaccinia virus vector.

Long used as a vaccine for smallpox, vaccinia patiently waits up to 72 hours before busting out.

Did you know, for example, that the vaccinia virus is a member of one of the largest and most complex of the vertebrate viruses?

Thanks to its resemblance to the smallpox virus, researchers were able to use vaccinia as a vaccine for the disease, eventually leading to its eradication in the late 1970s.

Late last week, FDA worked with the United States Attorney to ask a court to seize the components of a product that involved the use of vaccinia virus vaccine as part of a purported treatment for cancer that FDA believes created the potential for substantial risks to patients.

Pexa - Vec is an engineered virus based on the harmless vaccinia cowpox virus — also the basis for the original smallpox vaccine.

In another report, vaccinia was used as a vector vaccine for immunizing Balb / c mice with each of the SARS - CoV structural proteins (N, S, membrane, and envelope) and then challenged with SARS - CoV [21].

While at UConn, he researched improvements to the system for generating recombinant vaccinia viruses in the laboratory of Dr. Paulo Verardi.