"A Cell-culture infectious variant of genotype 1 virus has been urgently needed, and that's what we've developed." -- Dr. Stanley Lemon

Lemon's group, including assistant professor MinKyung Yi and postdoctoral fellow Rodrigo Villanueva, started with a genotype 1 hepatitis C virus know to be highly infectious in chimpanzee.

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