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Designer Virus Pioneer Sees a Revolution Ahead for Synthetic Biology
When researchers synthesized the poliovirus from scratch 10 years ago, it was a major feat in the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology. For the first time, scientists had chemically stitched...
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Computational Biologist Steven Skiena on Keeping Designer Viruses out of the...
Designer viruses have come a long way since Eckard Wimmer and colleagues first synthesized the poliovirus in 2002. That project ignited a firestorm of concern about the pitfalls of constructing...
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How Policymakers Are Shaping Ethics Guidelines for Synthetic Biology
When geneticist Craig Venter announced that his team had constructed a self-replicating bacterial genome from scratch in May 2010, University of California, Berkeley anthropologist Paul Rabinow told...
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