Posted on 07/30/2015 10:20:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Bring Out Your Dead
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
I Am Legend . . .
Well yeah! ;’)
Well, to be honest, it wasn’t the FR RF I was thinking about, it was the Stephen King character I was referring to...
But I suppose you’re right, just hope our RF doesn’t have the same abilities or motives as the character.
Dang, I know better...
Always read through, you got it.
Just when you thought you were up to date on your shots...
That does read like the start of a horror novel.
We brought back old viruses, made them better, and then gave them to people.
And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and [upon] them which worshipped his image.
It seems to me that after the first round of gene therapy using one of these synthetic viruses, the patient would become immune, rendering the synthetic virus unusable for subsequent therapies.
In other words, these researchers have only temporarily bypassed the problem of preexisting immunity to gene therapy adenovirus based vectors.
The great promise of gene therapy has always been derailed by the body’s strong and effective defenses against the entry of foreign nucleic acids, whether they come in the form of carrier vectors (plasmids or cosmids), or modified viruses. Basically, if the nucleic acid is not already present inside the cells, the body doesn’t want it.
I’m nekulturny in these times. This is a movie, right?
I don’t do movies so I don’t get the allusion
I wouldn’t say you are uncultured. That picture is of the mad Russian scientist from the television series “The Last Ship.”
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