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Mike Skinner

Michael Skinner

Author Biography and Research Interests: 

My background is in the molecular biology of human viral pathogens, specifically HIV (tat/TAR interactions, at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge), poliovirus (secondary structure of 5' non-coding RNA in neurovirulence and vaccine attenuation, with Prof Jeff Almond) and coronaviruses, in the pre-SARS era (with Prof Stuart Siddell, then in Wuerzburg, Germany).

Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!

Mike Skinner & Sulzhan Bali

29 Oct 2008; Science Oxford.

Pandemic flu and the end of the human race? When bird flu finds a human host, the death rate is higher than in the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic (which killed nearly 40 million people).



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We had the pleasure of being interviewed on Monday by Patrick Redmond from Birmingham Skeptics in the Pub. Listen to the interview below or visit the site.

 

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