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Malaria Genome Mapped
kilaasi writes "A team of scientist have mapped the malaria-genome. 'After six years, Gardner and an international team have pieced together the DNA sequence of the tiny parasite Plasmodium falciparum that causes the majority of human malaria.' This does not imply that there is a cure at the moment, but it does give hope for a cure in the future. Regards Claus"
they've sequenced the human genome...
Great, now everybody will be able to assemble americans from scratch using internet mail-order DNA segments like was done with polio. Good going. Sequence some more deadly mammal genomes while you're at it.
It's possible to create virussus from their dna sequence because of their simple structure (basically RNA in a shell).
Higher organisms are far more difficult to create from scratch... this parasite is a higher organism.
And why on earth would anyone want to do that... I'm pretty sure that it's cheaper to fly to africa and get hold of malaria from there.
and WHAT ON EARTH would you do with the malaria once you had it?!?!?
I'm sure that there are far deadlier diseases than malaria you could spread... probably even diseases that didn't depend on mosquitos...
(I really hope this wasn't a joke...)
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