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'Safe Ebola' Created for Research

Posted by Zonk on from the makes-me-so-happy-to-be-living-in-the-same-city dept.

Nephrite writes "By removing a gene from the virus Ebola, UW-Madison scientists have managed to stop the deadly pathogen from replicating. This first step may be a start down the path to a vaccine or drug screening. 'The scientists still want the virus to replicate in order to study it, so they developed monkey kidney cells which contained the protein needed. Because the cell was providing the protein, and not the virus itself, it could only replicate within those cells, and even if transferred into a human, would be harmless.'"

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  1. Repeat of a movie plotline? by Iamthebubblelady · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I think this has been done a number of times in movies/games (MI2, Resident Evil, I am Legend etc...)and hasn't it turned out badly every time? I guess I should get my shotgun ready for some flesh eating zombie target practice! First person to 100 wins.

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  2. After you panic... by thrill12 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids., general Jack D. Ripper

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  3. Re:Before you panic by airedalez · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Can you say 28 days later?

  4. Jurasic Park like problem awaiting to happen by pablochacin · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Didn't these guys see (or better, read the book) Jurasic Park? This is a pandemia awaiting to hapen. As Dr. Malco said, "Nature always find its way". I'm booking for the first comercial flight to another planet, just in case.