Wisconsin flexed its biotech muscles once again last week, this time in an area of medicine that is at the top of everybody’s to-do list: researching the viruses that cause influenza.
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The establishment of a $9 million research institute on the far west side of Madison will make the city the center in the United States for genetic research, not just on influenza viruses but, more important, on the deadly strain of bird flu that many scientists fear could spark a global epidemic.