Download the PDF Why are evolutionary biologists bringing back extinct deadly viruses?
by Michael Specter
Thierry Heidmann’s office, adjacent to the laboratory he runs at the Institut Gustave Roussy, on the southern edge of Paris, could pass for a museum of genetic catastrophe. Files devoted to the world’s most horrifying infectious diseases fill the cabinets and line the shelves. There are thick folders for smallpox, Ebola virus, and various forms of influenza. Read more »
Michael Specter has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998.
