August 17, 2023 10:30 am | Updated 01:09 pm ISTThis is part I of a two-part story on the Spanish flu virus. But while scientists can easily introduce changes to the genetic material of a virus, they can’t create a virus from scratch. Meet H and NIn 1995, molecular pathologist Jeffery Taubenberger, who was working on the influenza virus, was trying to understand why some strains of the virus caused pandemics while others didn’t. An influenza virus contains one of each and is classified accordingly. But for all these remarkable insights, the virus’s genetic sequence revealed nothing dramatic about the virus itself.

Source: The Hindu August 17, 2023 11:05 UTC