Word: reid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hard work was just beginning for Reid. She would spend the next year searching through the samples for a snip...
Back in Washington, Taubenberger and Reid had decided to concentrate on the seven cases in which the victim had died most quickly, figuring that these specimens would be most likely to retain the genetic remains of the virus. They found plenty of RNA, but none of it looked like flu--until, after a full year's work, they came to Private Roscoe Vaughn...
Using an array of powerful if arcane gene-hunting tools, Taubenberger and Reid slowly picked their way through the shattered genetic landscape of Private Vaughn's cells. This time they got lucky. They found small pieces of flulike RNA. Their subsequent analysis showed that the virus was an H1N1 influenza unlike any flu virus identified during the past 80 years. The closest known strain was Swine Iowa 30--the pig flu isolated by Richard Shope in 1930 and kept alive at various culture repositories ever since. Their findings suggest that the 1918 virus came to people from pigs, not from...
Hultin expected to wait months to hear of any results, but Taubenberger called within a few weeks. He had found fragments of the 1918 virus in Hultin's Lucy. Taubenberger and Reid had meanwhile recovered yet another sample of 1918 virus from tissues in the Armed Forces annex. Taken together, the three samples put to rest any doubt that Taubenberger's lab had indeed found and sequenced key portions of the original Spanish-flu virus...
...sees the Baker Center's new series as agood example of the type of television they seekto promote, Reid-Wallace said...