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The long-now foundation encourages thinking beyond the next Wall-st quarter or even a single life-space. Here, an early bet

"A bioterror or bioerror will lead to one million casualties in a single event within a six month period starting no later than Dec 31 02020."

seems to be firmly on the side of the proponent. Some of the counter-arguments

•  Pool of potential perpetrators: The number of people eager for senseless destruction is small
• Multiply by the fraction with the knowledge, skill, intelligence, and discipline to engineer a superbug
• chance that the Black Hat will defeat the White Hats, namely the world's medical and epidemiological networks, who would combat an outbreak with containment, vaccines, antibiotics, etc.
• historical (ir)relevance The only successful past cases of bioterror are the Rajneeshee cult (751 cases, 0 deaths) and the Anthrax mailing (5 deaths). The Soviet-era anthrax bioweapon leak killed another 66.

Some of comments reflect how incredibly fast synthetic biology has advance in 2 decades

Twisted plan to become pregnant & give birth to coincide with the
start of her court trial and use motherhood as an excuse for lenient
sentencing.

Anyone want to bet she won't continue to use her fake "low voice"
during the trial ?

On 8/31/21, Biology Discussions <discussio...@gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/elizabeth-holmes-fraud-trial-begins-a-timeline-blood-testing-startup-theranos-downfall
>
> Update Elizabeth Homes on Trial.
>
> On Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 9:13:19 PM UTC-7 Biology Discussions wrote:
>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtAg9Z_3cgw
>>
>> Here is an overview of the Theranos Scandal.
>>
>> On Friday, March 12, 2021 at 9:38:30 PM UTC-8 Biology Discussions wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/12/elizabeth-holmes-trial-delayed-because-shes-pregant.html
>>>
>>> Here we go again
>>>
>>> Former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes, whose criminal fraud trial was
>>> scheduled to start in July, is asking for a delay because she's
>>> pregnant.
>>>
>>> In a court filing on Friday, her defense attorneys and prosecutors asked
>>>
>>> Judge Edward Davila to delay the start of her trial by six weeks to begin
>>>
>>> on August 31, 2021.
>>>

Does anyone have experience ordering strains from the big German culture collection DSMZ (link)? Looks like they vet each new lab registration by hand, and I'm not sure how they will look at a non-academically affiliated community lab, let alone one located in a different country...

The organism we're interested in is a Risk Group 1 anaerobic bacteria - wasn't able to find it at ATCC here in the US (which is also a bit of a pain to register with).

Patrik

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