After a freak lab accident unleashes a genetically enhanced, impossibly strong creature, a terrified world must marshal its forces to stop a being with abilities beyond imagination. (uphe.com)
On the national scene, meanwhile, despite remedial steps at UCLA and some other universities and attention to the issue in scientific meetings and publications, the toll of academic lab accidents mounts. (sciencemag.org)
In a separate drama, the H1N1 in humans that caused the 1918 pandemic was replaced by an H2N2 in 1957 but then suddenly reappeared in humans in 1977 — many suspect a Soviet lab accident — and has been making the Homo sapiens rounds since. (sciencemag.org)