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Thursday, August 15, 2013

Genetic switch to guard against escaped 'superviruses'

Genetic switch to guard against escaped 'superviruses' - health - 13 August 2013 - New Scientist: "It sounds like the plot of a Hollywood disaster movie: scientists tinker with a flu virus to make it more deadly, only for the mutant strain to escape and trigger a pandemic.



Yet flu scientists are currently at loggerheads over experiments to make the H7N9 bird influenza virus that emerged in China earlier this year even more dangerous."

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