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Genome Synthesis Technique for Virus Vaccine Development

Posted on June 30, 2008

A group at Stony Brook University has modified the polio virus to create a weakened version, which, when injected, went on to effectively immunize lab mice. The team of molecular biologists and computer scientists used a novel algorithm to sort through potential recordings of the genome that would produce the desired proteins. The technique may lead to practical, systematic methods of developing future viral vaccines.Because of the redundancy of the genetic code, there are an unimaginably large number of ways to encode any given protein. For poliovirus proteins, there are more possible encod...

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amino acids , protein , proteins