Minigenomes - a Safe Way to Study Dangerous Viruses Like the Ebola Virus
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Blog Post
Published
March 17, 2016, 2:30 p.m.
...minigenomes are incapable of producing infectious virus (similar to lentiviral vectors) because they do not encode...components of the Zaire ebola virus minigenome system
Similar to other RNA viruses, EBOV brings its own RNA-dependent...studied independently of other viral proteins simplifying the interpretation of results.
This system can...