Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (2009)
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HN comment order> There. A single base-pair change, flipping two bits, is perhaps all you need to turn the current less-deadly H1N1 swine flu virus into a more deadly variant. Similar idea: I have a friend in a lab who recently made a synthetic version of a virus (she said she was "resuscitating" the virus). It has a single point mutation. It's normally BSL-4 and causes lethal infection. With the mutation it's supposedly safe to work with and won't enter certain cells…
That's the most interesting not-really-about-computers article I've read on HN in the last two years.
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009-06-21 | On the 3.2kbytes in Influenza AFirst breakout | blasdel | 142 | 28 |
| 2014-10-22 | On Influenza A (2009) | evanw | 4 | 0 |
| 2017-02-03 | Influenza A (H1N1) – How many bits does it take to kill a human? (2009)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | gpvos | 146 | 29 |