physorg.com — In an experiment never seen before in medicine, US researchers went to Alaska to recover tissue samples from a woman victim of Spanish flu whose body had been preserved in permafrost.Teasing out fragments of the virus, they painstakingly recreated the H1N1's eight genes.They brought back to life a killer last seen more than three generations ago.
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waynechngSep 28, 2006
I don't get this experiment. All four variants are harmful. It's like testing if a 22 pistol, a 9mm Glock, a .45 Magnum, or a Remington shotgun will kill you worse.
datagodSep 28, 2006
A viris is not alive.
ddalesSep 28, 2006
I don't know. I just can't decide if f**king with dna or genes and such is a good thing or a bad thing. At first, when the technology was very very new, I thought it was pretty cool. Then came cloning sheep and engineering vegetables. Now I'm starting to feel that this type of research is a little spooky in a way.What if scientists were able to pull some sort of nasty bug out of some frozen person/animal for which there is absolutely no cure. Say said scientists? project was confiscated by the government. Or even worse, stolen by some extremists and unleashed on an unsuspecting society.There are obvious benefits but at the same time there are some pretty obvious concerns. I'm starting to thing there are researchers messing with stuff that they shouldn't be messing with.
dawngrrlSep 28, 2006
Why does at least one conspiracy theory pop out of almost every thread? I wont go into the countless benefits of scientific R&D on potentially dangerous elements, but I will say that this is us...this is what we do as humans. We question. We dig and dig until we uncover everything there is to uncover and answer all the questions we can dream up. We hope we do it smart, we hope we do it safely, but we will do it (obviously) at any cost. There is far more in the intent then secret paranoid depopulation plans....
wackytSep 28, 2006
Sounds like "Captain Trips" is almost ready to escape.
atworksurferSep 28, 2006
Q: "Why does at least one conspiracy theory pop out of almost every thread?"A: "this is what we do as humans. We question. We dig and dig until we uncover everything there is to uncover and answer all the questions we can dream up."From the wording of your post it's not clear to me that you even realize that you answered your own question.
mirzmasterSep 28, 2006
So the flu strain committed mass murder? I thought it just caused death :)In general, humans murder, viruses cause death.
Closed AccountSep 28, 2006
That's nice, nobody cares.
clearzSep 28, 2006
Cool!! So when is this film gonna be released....Oh wait
dawngrrlOct 2, 2006
Touche' indeed!!