Current recommendations limit smallpox vaccine to scientists working with smallpox and related viruses in a laboratory.
These white blood cells attack viruses in a completely different way than antibodies attack them.
Dr. Lipkin thought it might be better to find viruses in a different way.
Finally, we found that some TFs were shared among different viruses in a phylogenetic-independent manner.
Now it's possible to identify new viruses in a matter of days.
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Swine flu: the slightly confusing video, showing mutating viruses in a pig's lungs - which look like the Great Barrier Reef.
Therefore, there is a remarkable demand to identify viruses in a fast, selective and accurate way.
A flu infection can produce 100 trillion new viruses in a matter of days.
This gene has also undergone insertional mutagenesis by non-acutely transforming murine leukemia viruses in a number of hematopoietic tumors.
Therefore, a robust method for detecting multiple viruses in a single reaction with high specificity, throughput, and speed is required.
