There is the possibility that some extremist group will use open-source bioengineering to make a super-plague, but I also think that would make it easier to develop a vaccine against it.
-- As for infectious gene therapy keep in mind that gene therapy usually uses deadly viruses as shells, HIV for instance is favored for immune system modifications, and is so delicate a procedure that it's doubtful it could work outside of a lab. Most gene therapy trial patients (I don't believe any have been approved yet) aren't simply given an injection. Instead a chunk of the tissue that is affected by their disease is extracted, infected with the vector in a petri dish, then grafted back into the patient.
On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:10:53 AM UTC-5, Bacter wrote:
On Wednesday, August 14, 2013 10:10:53 AM UTC-5, Bacter wrote:
" - While some biological agents have been used as weapons, to little comparable effect, infectious agents have never been used publicly. They are not well monitored, and not well known."So we've... used noninfectious biological agents as weapons? I mean I guess punching a guy is a noninfectious biological agent, but we've (humans have) totally used infectious biological agents too. Just ask the huns!
I think he's referring to chemical weapons derived from organisms such as ricin.
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