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Build Your Own Virus

Posted by michael on from the just-like-sea-monkeys dept.

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?"

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I claim this for all trollkind!

  2. But will it infect Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If not, it's not a real virus anyway.

  3. PLEASE PAY ATTENTION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have a DICK that's FULL OF LOVE for you.

    Thank you.

  4. Re:No more DeCSS for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    last poster: has too much time to create stupid fake programs
  5. Re:No more DeCSS for me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    yuo=fagot

  6. Not the first virus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is really not the first synthetic virus. AIDS is synthetic. They "tested" it among African villages ravaged by smallpox. All those villages that recieved
    vaccines become infected.

    /me Welcomes the flames!

  7. live virus by Veteran · · Score: 1, Troll

    The definition of stupidity is doing something just because you can, and for no other reason.

    Evidently these people don't understand the difference between 'could' and 'should'.

    Since these ethical idiots have now demonstrated that building an artificial virus is possible it is only a matter of time before someone (since the gnome is available) rebuilds a small pox virus and lets that loose on the world.

  8. Now all we need... by DarkHelmet · · Score: 1, Troll
    ...is a "virus" that straightens teeth, removes the drawl from people's voices, and causes family trees to start having forks. Either that, or kills off people with those qualities.

    Gawd, I hate talking about suicide.

    --
    /^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
  9. Re:AV companies have gone too far.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is no such word as "virii". Using it makes you look like a pretentious idiot. Please stop.

  10. test by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    this .is .a .test .of .the .emergency .broadcast .system .dont .you .like .your .pages .wide .enough .I .certainly .do .thats .why .pages .should .be .wide .because .slashcode .has .a .regression .bug .in .it .it .sucks .the .big .monkey .nuts
  11. Re:Can't stop science by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is no such word as "virii". Please stop using it if you want people to take you seriously.

  12. Re:Huge medicine possibility by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    There is no such word as "virii". Please stop using it if you want people to take you seriously.