Researchers Reconstruct 1918 Flu Virus

Gnpatton writes "CNN is running a story on how researchers have recreated the gene sequence for the 1918 virus which claimed 50 million lives. The mapping for the gene sequence was found on a victim frozen in Alaskan permafrost. From the article: 'Using a technique called reverse genetics, the Mount Sinai researchers used the genetic coding to create microscopic, virus-like strings of genes, called plasmids.'" Researchers are hoping that reconstructing a virus like this will help them to better understand similar problems. The structure was originally determined earlier this year.

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Re:Sick and should be forbidden...

[SillySlashdotName]

Totally off topic, but...

I never understood the last line in the movie.

The woman says she is in 'Insurance'.

Is she insuring the virus DOES get spread - is that why the terrorist is alive - and so the 'ruling class' in the future gets to become (stay) the ruling class, (if so why was there the effort to do the whole time travel thing in the first place), or is she insuring that the virus DOESN'T spread - in which case why does the movie end there?

Didn't the terrorist expose himself and everyone else in the airport when he opened the sample flask? If everyone was exposed, and in a high traffic area such as the airport, then she could not be insuring that the virus DOESN'T spread.

But there was no effort to show that the ruling class had any reason or intention of trying to retain their position.

confusing...