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Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life
ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 01 Nov 2006 | Martin Enserink

Posted on 11/07/2006 1:05:54 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman

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Thanks guys, try not to kill the entire human race.
1 posted on 11/07/2006 1:05:58 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman
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Hmmm...just in time to vote Democrat!


2 posted on 11/07/2006 1:06:33 PM PST by TBP
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somebody send them a tape or DVD of Jusrassic Park ASAP


3 posted on 11/07/2006 1:06:58 PM PST by wildbill
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And was immediately elected Senator from West Virginia.


4 posted on 11/07/2006 1:07:43 PM PST by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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Although this particular virus, dubbed Phoenix, is a wimpy one

Viruses mutate.
5 posted on 11/07/2006 1:07:47 PM PST by kinoxi
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So that's how Helen Thomas has stuck around so long........
6 posted on 11/07/2006 1:07:53 PM PST by b4its2late (FOOTBALL REFEREES: It's tough playing with us, but you can't play the game without us.)
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Thanks guys, try not to kill the entire human race

lol!

What was that line from Jurassic Park? Something like: "Your scientists were so preoccupied with if they COULD that they never stopped to think if they SHOULD."

7 posted on 11/07/2006 1:08:29 PM PST by The Blitherer (We all know the truth now, and it is incontrovertible: Karl Rove is one magnificent bastard! - D. B.)
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That's some ugly fossil

8 posted on 11/07/2006 1:10:39 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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Viral Fossil Brought Back to Life


That was last election with Lautenberg.


9 posted on 11/07/2006 1:10:44 PM PST by A.Hun (Common sense is no longer common.)
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"A team led by Thierry Heidmann at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, France, near Paris, decided to try to awaken the ancestor of an entire family of HERVs called HERV-K(HML2)."



What a shocker. Some idiot "scientist" from FRANCE thought that this would be a great idea.


10 posted on 11/07/2006 1:11:46 PM PST by FarRightFanatic
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"The virus was genetically modified in such a way that it could replicate only once ... or so they hoped!
11 posted on 11/07/2006 1:12:21 PM PST by chaos_5
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Just because they can, does it mean they should?


12 posted on 11/07/2006 1:13:12 PM PST by MadeInAmerica (- If ILLEGAL means Undocumented - Then Breaking and Entering means Unannounced Visit)
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"I think it's pretty exciting," says John Coffin, who studies retroviruses at Tufts University in Boston.

"That's how it starts. First it's 'Ooh' and 'Aah' but then there's running and screaming..."

13 posted on 11/07/2006 1:13:36 PM PST by Leroy S. Mort
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"resuscitating any ancient virus is inherently risky"

"I think it's pretty exciting," says John Coffin.

Weekly World News?

14 posted on 11/07/2006 1:13:56 PM PST by BenLurkin ("The entire remedy is with the people." - W. H. Harrison)
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Hmmm......Hey guys, Let's resurrect a virus that hasn't been around a million years! Sounds like fun!........
15 posted on 11/07/2006 1:14:32 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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......well, we THOUGHT< it would replicate only once!.........
16 posted on 11/07/2006 1:15:42 PM PST by Red Badger (New! HeadOn Hemorrhoid Medication for Liberals!.........Apply directly to forehead.........)
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The researchers showed that the newly crated virus...

At least they kept it in a crate.

17 posted on 11/07/2006 1:16:15 PM PST by Straight Vermonter (It takes a school to bankrupt a village.)
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Andromeda strain?


18 posted on 11/07/2006 1:16:41 PM PST by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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LOLOLOLOLOLOL


19 posted on 11/07/2006 1:17:44 PM PST by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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haha..i missed that...dam french vanilla on computer screen..
20 posted on 11/07/2006 1:18:26 PM PST by FLOutdoorsman (Been Lurking. Glad to be on the FReedom Train.)
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