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...team of scientists from the U.S., Indonesia and Japan, led by virologist Yoshihiro Kawaoka at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, combined a strain of the deadly H5N1 avian virus with strains of H3N2 human seasonal flu, creating 254 new, mutated viruses. By injecting them in lab mice, researchers found that some of the hybrid viruses were both deadly (like bird flu) and transmissible (like seasonal human flu) - the kind of genetically mutated superflu viruses that experts have been warning about for decades. (See how to prevent illness...
SEAS Physics Professor David A. Weitz, who co-authored the article, said that microfluidics offers a much more efficient alternative to traditional lab methods...
...development, published on Jan. 18 in the British journal Lab on a Chip, allows scientists to better monitor experiments with microfluidics, which involves manipulating miniscule amounts of liquids to scale down lab processes to a micro-sized package...
Weitz said the new technology could cut down costs of running lab experiments as well as speed up lab processes from several months to a few hours...
Mount has a background in both academia and developmental psychology. After working in a Harvard lab researching infant cognition and learning in early development, she earned a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education. She then taught developmental psychology at Wheelock College, where she also served as associate dean of graduate programs, before returning to Harvard as director of GSAS and Ph.D. advising...