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to make a substance that looks like a vaccine--
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looks like a virus but can't replicate.
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We talked about attenuating in the laboratory,
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using cell culture techniques
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and what we know about mutating viruses.
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One can also purify parts of the protein,
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that is, parts of the virus,
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that is, "Do I really need to deliver the whole virus?"
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If the immune system recognizes only small pieces of the virus
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and mounts an immune response to that,
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how about if I just take these pieces of a virus
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like some structural subunit, some piece of protein