Most of the infected ferrets recovered from the lab-made virus.

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In 2001, researcher Brian Kaspar in his lab noticed that the virus called AAV, which is often been used in gene therapy experiments, had an unusual property.

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And lab tests showed that the virus that infected the family had not mutated from its avian form, the researchers said.

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More people are walking into Best Buy and buying Kaspersky Lab than Norton Anti-Virus and McAfee products, according to various trade journals.

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Hepatitis C has been a particularly tough virus to target because it has proven very difficult to grow in the lab.

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The virus was found in 10 cats out of 111 submitted to the Bristol University lab for tests to find more cases of the feline form of mad cow disease.

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C. lab, Dr. Ally Hextall (Jennifer Ehle) tries to isolate the virus and develop enough of it to create a serum.

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