Sentences with phrase «produce hemagglutinin»

In their experimental treatment, he and his colleagues injected mice, ferrets, and monkeys with viral DNA, causing their muscle cells to produce hemagglutinin, a protein found on the surface of all flu viruses.

Researchers at Protein Sciences Corporation, a small biotech in Meriden, Connecticut, genetically modified a virus that infects caterpillar cells to produces hemagglutinin, a coat protein of the influenza virus that triggers antibodies.

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The method is much less cumbersome than dealing with chicken eggs, and because the vaccine is so easy to produce, the company intends to use 135 micrograms of hemagglutinin in each dose of vaccine — 3 times higher than current flu vaccines — in hopes of getting better protection.

The vaccines deliver mRNA encoding for hemagglutinin to the body's cells, directing them to produce and express this viral antigenic protein transiently on the cell's surface, much like a native infection would do, but without the ability to cause disease.

And researchers were truly surprised to find genes that produce proteins called adhesins and hemagglutinins, substances that mediate cell invasion — and were previously found only in pathogens that attack animals.