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Analysing swine flu
27 April 2009
Scientists in the World Influenza Centre (WIC) at NIMR have been designing oligonucleotides for sequencing influenza genes, and TaqMan probes for real-time PCR analysis. Samples of virus from the US Centers for Disease Control are expected to arrive later this week.
NIMR scientists have also provided information about the virus to the media. Alan Hay, the Director of the WIC, is quoted on the BBC website in the blog written by Susan Watts, science editor of Newsnight. John McCauley (pictured), from NIMR's Division of Virology, took part in a discussion on swine flu on the BBC Today programme and, in an article in the Daily Telegraph, he has explained why this H1N1 virus is unusual.
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