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Re:Molecular biology clues portray SARS-CoV-2 as a lab manip... by atemerev on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:28PM (#27335906)
Antiviral drug design, learning probable epidemic spillover pathways, immunogenetics... of course, it is still too dangerous, especially without some sort of artificial kill switch.
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Re:Molecular biology clues portray SARS-CoV-2 as a lab manip... by scarmig on Sunday May 30, 2021 @03:30PM (#27335922)
Even a kill switch isn't that useful. You just need a single virion to manage to drop the gene that encodes the kill switch to get your doomsday device.
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