Man-made virus!
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic_virology
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_virus
- https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-it-possible-to-enginee/
- https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/05/22/723582726/scientists-modify-viruses-with-crispr-to-create-new-weapon-against-superbugs
TODO: if we had cheap de novo DNA synthesis, how hard would it be to bootstrap a virus culture from that? https://github.com/cirosantilli/cirosantilli.github.io/issues/60
Is it easy to transfect a cell with the synthesized DNA, and get it to generate full infectious viral particles?
If so, then de novo DNA synthesis would be very similar to 3D printed guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_printed_firearms.
It might already be possible to order dissimulated sequences online:
- Species bootstrapping from DNA | 101, 250, 4
- De novo DNA synthesis | 189, 449, 6
- DNA | 30, 3k, 72
- Molecular biology | 37, 3k, 186
- Biology | 0, 10k, 475
- Natural science | 0, 62k, 2k
- Science | 0, 67k, 2k
- Ciro Santilli's Homepage | 262, 222k, 4k
- Species bootstrapping from DNA | 101, 250, 4