New Insect Virus Provides a Safer Platform for Flavivirus Vaccines and Tests (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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New Insect Virus Provides a Safer Platform for Flavivirus Vaccines and Tests (2 of 3)

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A three-dimensional reconstruction of a chimera Binjaru virus particle containing genes from Zika virus. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 11, 2019, issue of <i>Science Translational Medicine</i>, published by AAAS. The paper, by J. Hobson-Peters at institution in location; and colleagues was titled, "A recombinant platform for flavivirus vaccines and diagnostics using chimeras of a new insect-specific virus."

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[Credit: J. Hobson-Peters <i>et al., Science Translational Medicine</i> (2019)]

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