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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿
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Historian and philosopher of science, especially virology. New Zealand-American. Lover of fountain pens, leather books, and verge pocket watches. Author of Cancer Virus Hunters (JHU Press, 2022) scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRkkWaYAAAAJ
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Klug. Check out Angela Creager and my Isis paper for her virus work.

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Also cool smelling extinct flower! "Scientists extracted DNA from specimens at Harvard Herbaria & used #synthbio@smellosopher.bsky.social)

Smelling hood, monitor & plaque
Christina Agapakis/ Ginkgo Bioworks,
Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg &
Sissel Tolaas
Resurrecting the Sublime, 2019
Smell diffusion hood, limestone boulder, animation
At what point are we the destroyers of species and of worlds?
Could we ever again smell flowers driven to extinction by humans?
This question is the motivation for an ongoing collaboration between artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, smell artist and researcher Sissel Tolaas, and researchers from Ginkgo Bioworks, led by Creative Director Christina Agapakis.
Ginkgo's scientists extracted DNA from specimens stored at Harvard University's Herbaria, then used synthetic biology to predict and resynthesize gene sequences expected to encode for fragrance-producing enzymes. Tolaas then used identical or comparative smell molecules to try to reconstruct the smell of the Orbexilum stipulatum, or Falls-of-the-Ohio scurf pea, a flower last seen in 1881 on Rock Island, near Louisville, Kentucky. Its island habitat was then lost forever with the
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I was hoping to get a few new details of his clearly often told story. He spoke to me for an hour and gave me some good suggestions for other people to include in the early history of Epstein-Barr virus.

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I interviewed him for my book Cancer Virus Hunters in 2013. He was sharp and critical, surprisingly so for his age. I wanted him to recount the discovery in his own words, but he kept telling me that I should know the story already, which I did, but I wanted to hear it in his own words.

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Yes, terminal A is beautiful. Just needs to be connected to the Skytrain

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It does feel bleak

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It covers work on Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), Shope papilloma virus, Bittner virus (Mouse mammary tumor virus), Gross murine leukemia virus, polyomavirus, SV40, Feline leukemia virus, Adenovirus, Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus, Epstein-Barr virus, HTLV, HIV, Human papillomavirus (HPV) etc

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It covers work on Rous sarcoma virus (RSV), Shope papilloma virus, Bittner virus (Mouse mammary tumor virus), Gross murine leukemia virus, polyomavirus, SV40, Feline leukemia virus, Adenovirus, Hepatitis B virus (HBV), Hepatitis C virus, Epstein-Barr virus, HTLV, HIV, Human papillomavirus (HPV) etc🧪

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Yes I do by looking at the work of Robert Gallo. I use the careers of important scientist to frame chapters of the book. I have a chapter on the discovery of HTLV and the creation of the HIV test including the transatlantic controversies regarding credit

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Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿
@drgregorymorgan.bsky.social
Historian and philosopher of science, especially virology. New Zealand-American. Lover of fountain pens, leather books, and verge pocket watches. Author of Cancer Virus Hunters (JHU Press, 2022) scholar.google.com/citations?user=RRkkWaYAAAAJ
568 followers1.1k following96 posts