Get Ready For The Gene-Bomb

[Zhukov]

One large step closer to the ability to design and syntesize original and targetable viruses.

A DNA Success Raises Bioterror Concern
By NICHOLAS WADE

Published: January 12, 2005

Researchers have made an unexpectedly sudden advance in synthesizing long molecules of DNA, bringing them closer to the goal of redesigning genes and programming cells to make pharmaceuticals.

But the success also puts within reach the manufacture of small genomes, such as those of viruses and perhaps certain bacteria. Some biologists fear that the technique might be used to make the genome of the smallpox virus, one of the few pathogens that cannot easily be collected from the wild.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/national/nationalspecial3/12gene.html

 

[dilloduck]

One large step closer to the ability to design and syntesize original and targetable viruses.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/national/nationalspecial3/12gene.html

I reckon a tin foil hat won't help me with this one huh?

 

[Zhukov]

It might work if it covers your whole head.

 

[dilloduck]

It might work if it covers your whole head.

I guess that rules out those breathing holes--drat!

 

[manu1959]

One large step closer to the ability to design and syntesize original and targetable viruses.


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/national/nationalspecial3/12gene.html

nice article....i question the ability of the "bad guys" to create a lab to create the stuff....an tinfoil won't work as well as a trash bag with duct tape

 

[Zhukov]

You'd be surprised just how easy it is to do, and unlike the development and production of a nuclear weapon it doesn't take large installations or advanced technology.