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High-Tech Images Show How Viruses Infect Cells

Published January 29, 2013

As people around the world contend with illnesses caused by viruses, including this year's strain of the flu or influenza, researchers continue to study how viruses work and how they manage to invade living cells in everything from bacteria to human organs. As VOA's Greg Flakus reports, University of Texas researchers recently collaborated on an innovative technique that allowed them to see a virus in the act of infecting a cell.


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