Viruses are clever parasites that are quick to hack into host systems for their survival. But viruses can themselves be turned on their head. Can you imagine a virus hacking the immune system to hide from the body and then hacking the hacker itself to make a vaccine? published in February in Nature Microbiology, has shown that this is possible. Scientists determined that a virus called human metapneumovirus (hMPV) mimics human RNA to hide from the body's immune response. But blocking the ability of the virus to do so results in a mutant strain that can actually act as a candidate...…Viruses are clever parasites that are quick to hack into host systems for their survival. But viruses can themselves be turned on their head. Can you imagine a virus hacking the immune system to hide from the body and then hacking the hacker itself to make a vaccine? published in February in Nature Microbiology, has shown that this is possible. Scientists determined that a virus called human metapneumovirus (hMPV) mimics human RNA to hide from the body's immune response. But blocking the ability of the virus to do so results in a mutant strain that can actually act as a candidate...WW…