Dr. Jeffrey Taubenberger was on the staff of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology when he did groundbreaking work on deducing the genetic code of influenza, using stored tissue samples collected by the Medical Museum in 1918. He’s gone back to one of those samples to make another exciting discovery.
Here’s the initial Wired story -
From 1918 Autopsy, A First Glimpse of Sickle Cell — and a Warning
- By Maryn McKenna
- November 15, 2010 |
- http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/from-a-1918-autopsy-a-first-glimpse-of-sickle-cell-%E2%80%94%C2%A0and-a-warning/
-an NPR followup -
92 Years Later, A Sickle-Cell Surprise
by NPR Weekend Edition Sunday November 28, 2010
http://www.npr.org/2010/11/28/131644641/92-years-later-a-sickle-cell-surprise
-and finally the original short report –
Sheng Z-M, Chertow DS, Morens D, Taubenberger J. Fatal 1918 pneumonia case complicated by erythrocyte sickling [letter]. Emerg Infect Dis. 2010 Dec; http://www.cdc.gov/eid/content/16/12/pdfs/10-1376.pdf
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