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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111012132653.htm

Researchers Reconstruct Genome of the Black Death; Bacteria Found to Be Ancestor of All Modern Plagues

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2011) — An international team -- led by researchers at McMaster University and the University of Tubingen in Germany -- has sequenced the entire genome of the Black Death, one of the most devastating epidemics in human history.
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As if there weren't enough modern diseases. Grab your masks and stock your tins, ladies & gentlemen, the end is nigh!
 
I always enjoy your posts. This is the dumbest idea in History.

Hey lets recreate the plague that almost wiped us from existence....I love this.
 
TorontRayne said:
...lets recreate the plague that almost wiped us from existence...
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Did I miss the part where they recreated the actual bacteria, rather than just determined its genetic makeup, guys?
 
EnigmaGrey said:
TorontRayne said:
...lets recreate the plague that almost wiped us from existence...
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Did I miss the part where they recreated the actual bacteria, rather than just determined its genetic makeup, guys?
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Sure. That's what they always say. Then we are all dead like in "The Stand" ..... :wink:

They could of course pursue further into the "Black Death" and eventually recreate it completely....or not. Either way something interesting happens.
 
Outbreaks of the Black Death (well modern variations of the virus) still happen in more impoverished areas of the world, it was never wiped out.
Anyway, sequencing the structure of a virus helps doctors find a cure for it and related viruses. :roll:
 
Stock my tins? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

anyway

My Super Human healing factor would help me against such an event.

the rest of you would be so Fucked though.
 
TheGM said:
Stock my tins? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

any

My Super Human healing factor would help me against such an event.

the rest of you would be so Fucked though.
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Of course! That goes without saying. But what will mere mortals like us do? :)
 
TorontRayne said:
TheGM said:
Stock my tins? What the hell is that supposed to mean?

any

My Super Human healing factor would help me against such an event.

the rest of you would be so Fucked though.
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Of course! That goes without saying. But what will mere mortals like us do? :)
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I dunno. Self Immolation has become quite popular lately.
 
You guys got the memo that we've got antibiotics now, right? I mean, there are probably already resistant strains of Yersinia Pestis in the wild, but that's also true for Mycobacterium Tuberculosis, which is much harder to get rid of even with antibiotics. There are enough real things to worry about.
 
First, they just decoded its genome.
Second, it's just the plague. A bacterial infection. It won't spread as much nowadays, and we can heal it.
Meh.
 
If we could build organisms from scratch simply by virtue of having mapped their genomes, we'd already be manufacturing people. Add me to the "meh" pile on this one, although I do find it fascinating that we're at this level of advancement in the field. We're really just a scant few breakthrough away from Jurassic Park.
 
I think we actually have made a single cell organism by now, that's capable of multiplying and probably little else, with a genome designed by man. Bacteria are of course a long way from dinosaurs, we'll have to wait for reptilian axlotl-tanks.
 
Dead Guy said:
I think we actually have made a single cell organism by now, that's capable of multiplying and probably little else, with a genome designed by man. Bacteria are of course a long way from dinosaurs, we'll have to wait for reptilian axlotl-tanks.
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We haven't "made" an organism from scratch, AFAIK an existing cell had its genetics replaced with a designed genome, and then went on to replicate etc. succesfully - a remarkable achievement, nontheless.

Also, I'd like to remind everyone that this is generally how zombie movies start. Just sayin'.
 
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...ath-kills-al-Qaeda-operatives-in-Algeria.html


The new epidemic began in the cave hideouts of AQLIM in Tizi Ouzou province, 150km east of the capital Algiers, the Sun reports.
The group, led by wanted terror figure Abdelmalek Droudkal, was forced to turn its shelters in the Yakouren forest into mass graves and flee
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I wish I still had the Alex Jones article from 2009 about how NATO was using weaponized black plague against Al Qaeda, it was comedic gold.
 
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