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Black Death's Genome Cracked

Posted by michael on from the i-dont-want-to-go-on-the-cart dept.

exceed writes: "This article on Wired, and this article on Yahoo! News states that scientists have decoded the genome of the bubonic plague bacterium. This will now (hopefully soon) lead to vaccinations and treatments for the disease it causes."

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  1. Wasteful by talonyx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Who the hell cares about the bubonic plague? We dealt with that shit back in the 1200's. There are more important diseases these scientists should have been studying, like AIDS and cancers.

  2. Terrorism is good for gene research by sting3r · · Score: 2, Offtopic
    It's nice to see so many genome-related research projects receive renewed interest and attention after the terrorist attacks.

    Although the citizens of the U.S. will probably suffer an unspeakable loss of civil liberties and privacy, we will probably reap many benefits from the medical research that was spurred.

    -sting3r

  3. Can you imagine.... by psykocrime · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A Beowulf cluster of these?

    LKJJL:JJLJJLKLJKLJ LAMENESS FILTER BLAH BLAH *(*&*&*(

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  4. Cracked? by Dolly_Llama · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It was cracked? Does that mean the genome was running IIS?

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    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan

  5. So how about a cure for... by Halloween+Jack · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ...the Blue Screen of Death?



    Oh, wait... got it already.

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  6. Re:All in the timing. by matrix29 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Catholic Church was all for teenage boy bands.

    They called them choirs and the singers were eunuchs or castrati (no testicles for you!) Because the boys never got the puberty boost of testosterone their larynxes never dropped and their voices stayed sweet and girl-like.

    We probably should be calling N*SYNC - N*NUTS
    (They would have had to have this done before they hit puberty of course.)
    http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/naples/Castra ti.html
    http://www.cix.co.uk/~velluti/cast.htm
    http://wa.essortment.com/castratihistory_rzna.htm

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    "Face it, a nation that maintains a 72% approval rating on George W. Bush is a nation with a very loose grip on reality.