Sentences with phrase «harmless vaccinia»
The Pexa - Vec virus was originally developed by Michael Mastrangelo, MD, and Edmund Lattime, PhD, of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, who engineered the harmless vaccinia virus to infect only cancer cells and other rapidly dividing cells, as well as to stimulate immune activity, in hopes of boosting the immune response to tumors.
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Pexa - Vec is an engineered virus based on the harmless vaccinia cowpox virus — also the basis for the original smallpox vaccine.