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Tracking the Progression of Plague Using Bioluminescence
Sequencing Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that caused the Black Plague in Europe during 1348–50, is an amazing accomplishment. Y. pestis infection still occurs sporatically and causes fatalities despi… more →
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Tracking the Progression of Plague Using Bioluminescence
wrote 1 month ago: Sequencing Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that caused the Black Plague in Europe during 1348–50, is … more →
Studying the Black Death's DNA
wrote 7 months ago: Remember how scientists have brought back a retrovirus? Well, how about trying something scarier for … more →
Sequencing the Black Death is a Window to the Past
wrote 7 months ago: After writing my review of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA article “Targeted … more →
Black death bacteria sequenced
wrote 7 months ago: Image of the East Smithfield cemetery excavation (1986-88). Copyright: Museum of London Archaeology … more →
DEADLY BLACK DEATH BUG
wrote 7 months ago: Image via Wikipedia By SETH BORENSTEIN – AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have c … more →
Health Updates 13 October 2011
wrote 7 months ago: Scientists solve the puzzle of Black Death‘s DNA: “After the Black Death reached London … more →
The Black Death Bacterium Decoded
wrote 7 months ago: Wresting DNA from the 663-year-old teeth of victims of the Black Death, researchers have reconstruct … more →
The Singularity? Decades away. The Zombie Apocalypse? Much closer!
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wrote 7 months ago: What, 34 years away? Even for me, who can get freaked out over just about anything… THIS is st … more →
Art of the Plague: Images of the Black Death
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wrote 7 months ago: When scientists announced today they have reconstructed the genome of the Black Death, one of the mo … more →
Amber's Pick: Light a candle
wrote 8 months ago: Hi everyone! Amber has a very interesting edition of Editor’ Pick this month. She has summar … more →
Dance Macabre: Will 14th Century Remains Reveal the Pandemic Secrets of the Black Death?
wrote 8 months ago: Last year, I reviewed a PLoS Pathogens paper that found European Black Plague victims from the mid 1 … more →
The Black Death
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wrote 8 months ago: The Plague: Birth of a Killer is the title of Brian Thomas’ latest DpSU. Naturally it is about … more →
Contagion: We've Still Got the Plague, and We've Added Avian Flu.
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wrote 8 months ago: Image via Wikipedia I’m thinking about going to see Contagion, because its association with th … more →
Proof of the plague
wrote 9 months ago: Every now and again I have a glance at the home-page of the Daily Mail website. On the right-hand si … more →
The Lost Plague - London Graveyards Suggest that Black Death may be Extinct.
wrote 9 months ago: Fantastic article on the Black death that is believed to have killed as estimated 100 million people … more →
More Warming, More Rain, More Plague
wrote 11 months ago: Getty Images Most of us learned about “the plague” or “the Black Death” a long time ago – reading Bo … more →
Oh, its pretty obvious that when it comes to 'climate science'? Lots of guessing!
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wrote 11 months ago: Oh… OK. So while SCIENCE can find no discernible proof that the sun (i.e. the big heater in th … more →
Germany's superbug is weaponized with Bubonic Plague DNA
wrote 11 months ago: 09 Jun 2011 “On Tuesday [May 31], the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that [lead … more →
Germany's superbug is weaponized with Bubonic Plague DNA
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wrote 11 months ago: Food Freedom has deliberately refrained from posting any suggestion that Germany’s superbug is … more →
