Scientists Have Constructed a Virus From Scratch
The researchers made the [Polio] virus in the laboratory using data from the Internet and tailor-made sequences ordered from a laboratory supply service. They injected the virus into mice to show that it worked. The animals were paralyzed and then killed.”
“I don’t think we need to encourage people to take this up as a hobby,” said [CJ] Peters [director of the Center for Biodefense at the University of Texas Medical Center at Galveston].“