keyser-soze wrote: > Scientists build polio virus from scratch > > Scientists have built the virus that causes polio from scratch in > the lab, using nothing more than genetic sequence information from > public databases and readily available technology. > > The feat proves that even if all the polio virus in the world were > destroyed, it would be easily possible to resurrect the crippling > disease. It also raises the worrying possibility that bioterrorists > could use a similar approach to create devastating diseases such as > ebola and smallpox without having to gain access to protected viral > stocks.
I hope they don't try to patent this since I produced prior art for the in vitro generation of human pathogens from genetic sequences going back to at least 1995. To quote Eric Hughes: "In the end it is all software". --Lucky Green
