Caption: To replicate efficiently, influenza A virus requires a complete set of eight RNA segments to make the complete influenza genome. The eight individual segments, represented in this illustration, each make a unique contribution toward the recruitment and assembly of disparate RNA fragments into a complete influenza genome.
Illustration by: Yuko Kawaoka
Date: January 2003
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Caption: Yoshi Kawaoka, professor of virology.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart.
Date: August 2001
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Caption: Yoshi Kawaoka, left, professor of pathobiological sciences in the UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, and post-doctoral fellow Masato Hatta, in the lab. Kawaoka's work with flu virus has helped solve a long-standing puzzle of how viruses make infectious particles called virions.
Photo by: Michael Forster Rothbart.
Date: August 2001
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