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Engineering immune evasion

One obstacle to realizing the promise of viral vectors for vaccine delivery is pre-existing immunity to such vectors. An adroit application of structure-based design points to a way around that problem.

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Mascola, J. Engineering immune evasion. Nature 441, 161 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/441161a

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