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La Jolla Researchers Identify Deadly Lassa Virus’ Weak Spot

Researchers at the La Jolla Institute for Immunology have identified the way that antibodies attach to the virus behind deadly Lassa fever, pointing the way toward developing a vaccine. The study by Kathryn Hastie and Erica Ollmann Saphire, published Thursday in the authoritative journal Cell, identified and then reverse-engineered the molecular properties shared by antibodies that […]