Wednesday, November 17, 2004

Mass decoding planned for flu strains

As part of the effort to thwart a global flu pandemic, US scientists have announced a scheme to determine the genetic sequence of many thousands of strains of influenza. Researchers already glean invaluable information about the flu virus from its genetic material, for example, what makes one strain more virulent than another. But such data have largely been based on scraps of genetic sequence from only a few strains.

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