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A quick Tweetorial about our new paper with the #BoutellLab, which @CharmanMatthew led during his PhD @CVRinfo

Alternative title: ‘Why are virologists’ cells stupid and does this matter?’ 🧵 (1/N)
If you work with human influenza viruses in the lab you most likely grow them in MDCK cells, or possibly MDBK cells, or maybe A549 cells if you are fussy enough to want a cell line that comes from (a) the right organ system and (b) the right species of animal (2/N)
These cell lines are super-convenient – they grow forever, and it’s so much easier to grow influenza in them than in, say, human bronchial epithelial cells. Great, right? (3/N) Influenza does not like growing in primary lung cells
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