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[FYI] OT - First synthetic virus created
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- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 23:19:30 +0200
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2122000/2122619.stm
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Thursday, 11 July, 2002, 20:04 GMT 21:04 UK
First synthetic virus created
By Dr David Whitehouse BBC News Online science editor
Scientists have assembled the first synthetic virus.
The US researchers built the infectious agent from scratch using the
genome sequence for polio.
The experiment has been received with a mixture of praise and
suspicion.
The artificial virus was able to infect and kill mice and seems to be
identical to its natural counterpart.
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