tools like Crispr allow for cheaper and easier creation of synthetic biological organisms

3-25-2019    the threat that someone could create and unleash a synthetic virus.  In June the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a 231-page study warning that even existing viruses like the common flu could be tweaked in a lab to evade immune responses and resist therapeutics…. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has announced its own initiative to find better methods for detecting and evaluating synthetic bioweapons.  The system is designed to prevent rogue actors from getting their hands on the building blocks needed to make a dangerous virus….

  But as tools like Crispr allow for cheaper and easier creation of synthetic biological organisms, technology is quickly surpassing enforcement measures. …

There’s no telling when a manufactured disease will become a reality.  If that occurs, the culprit might be a lab-trained terrorist or a basement biohacker, a bumbling grad student or a Russian microbiologist on the lam.  https://www.wired.com/story/synthetic-biology-vaccines-viruses-horsepox/157
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