Temperature and potential dengue, Zika vaccine

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JimF
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Temperature and potential dengue, Zika vaccine

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A major route toward creating effective vaccines against dengue virus and Zika involves the E protein that covers the surface of each viral particle. If we could develop strong antibodies against this E protein, then that would be the crux of a formidable vaccine—based on the important fact that the 180 E proteins come in pairs.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-05-body-temp ... a.html#jCp

Maybe Folding can find a way to interfere with this protein?
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