Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop http://www.nature.com/news/ Nature Publishing Group en Nature Publishing Group News at Nature Nature Publishing Group permissions@nature.com 1744-7933 http://feeds.nature.com/~r/news/rss/news_s1/~3/XkwtiWctdNg/462154a.html reports from three laboratories scrutinizing the pandemic flu virus.<img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/news/rss/news_s1/~4/XkwtiWctdNg" height="1" width="1"/> (Swine flu: One killer virus, three key questions) 10.1038/462154a Biotechnology Wed Nov 11 18:00:00 EST 2009 News at Nature Wed Nov 11 18:00:00 EST 2009 http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091111/full/462154a.html?s=news_rss http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091110/full/462149a.html?s=news_rss But initiatives meet with mixed response. 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