A glimpse into the molecular machinery of the flu virus suggests how it smuggles one of its key enzymes into the infected cell's nucleus, where the enzyme helps the virus to replicate. Scientists are particularly interested in this enzyme, RNA polymerase, because it is a potential drug target and because mutations in it could help avian flu adapt to humans. Its structure has been hard to study because the enzyme is difficult to make in a suitable form.
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