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Lab Follies

Posted on 29 July 2022 by ChrisC

A rather horrifying news item: How Canadian researchers reconstituted an extinct poxvirus for $100,000 using mail-order DNA.

Bringing back an extinct virus that is related to smallpox, that’s a pretty inflammatory situation


PAUL KEIM, NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY

Franky, after the last few years of grot, I’d prefer it if Smallpox didn’t return.

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