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