Murdered Scientist Dr. Wiley Worked On 1918 Virus

Hello Jeff - The late Dr. Wiley and Dr. Skehel worked closely together on the 1918 flu virus.

Patty

"In the February 62004 edition ofScience magazine it was reported that two teams of researchers, one led by Sir John Skehel, director of the National Institute for Medical Research in London and another by Professor Ian Wilson of the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego had managed to synthesise the haemagglutinin protein responsible for the 1918 outbreak of Spanish Flu by piecing together DNA procured from a lung sample taken from the body of an Inuit woman buried in the Alaskan tundra and a number of preserved samples taken from American soldiers of the First World War. The two teams had analysed the structure of the gene and discovered how subtle alterations to the shape of a protein molecule had allowed it to move from birds to humans with such devastating effects."

Here is the full article about Dr. Wiley's work on the virus - http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/pdf/summer2004/1918.pdf

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