Friend Virus Budding from T-cell (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Friend Virus Budding from T-cell

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This scanning electron microscope image shows newly formed Friend virus particles, upper right in light blue, budding from an infected white blood cell known as a T-lympocyte. The virus was used in a University of Utah study that suggests how increasing genetic diversity in livestock and in captive-bred endangered species may help protect them from infection.

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Elizabeth Fischer and Austin Athman, NIH Rocky Mountain Laboratories.

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