Picture Reports: Influenza virus, Santa Claus, or a mouse playing tennis?
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Influenza virus, Santa Claus, or a mouse playing tennis? We have all lain on our backs, looked up at the clouds, and imagined all sorts of creatures there. Sometimes the same may happen with electron microscopy, and I recently produced this electron micrograph of an influenza virus. My colleagues and I have seen it variously as a caveman wielding a club, John McEnroe, Santa Claus, and a mouse playing tennis.-BRIAN
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- British medical journal
دوره 289 6460 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1984