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Build Your Own Virus
Wire Tap writes "Scientists have assembled the first synthetic virus. The US researchers built the infectious agent from scratch using the genome sequence for polio. The most amusing part is this snippit: 'To construct the virus, the researchers say they followed a recipe they downloaded from the internet and used gene sequences from a mail-order supplier.' Heck, don't we all have our own mail-order suppliers for gene sequences?"
From the article: injected it into mice to demonstrate that it was active. The animals were paralysed and then died.
After decades of research, advances in biotechnology finally creates the long fabled "better mousetrap".
Everything will be taken away from you.
Great, another computer-engineered virus.
No wonder my roomate has been screaming "I send you this file in order to have your advice. See you later. Thanks. " while throwing porn at me and defacing my website. Fortunately, I was able to powercycle him with a car-battery.
What's it called?
9o7i0
kewl! I just made 5m4L7p0x
Release it dude!
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
When someone who is in the business of "using a modified adenovirus to deliver a suicide gene", is using a sig like this, it scares the bejeebers out of me...
Word game?
They should be very, very careful. You never know what might happen with mail-order gene sequences, or genetic material from eBay or such places.
And the brethren went away edified.