Kevin Esvelt
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Evolutionary and ecological engineer, professor at the MIT Media Lab, where he leads the Sculpting Evolution group. He first described CRISPR-based gene…
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Ordering the synthetic DNA needed to rebuild the 1918 influenza virus is surprisingly easy, even from companies that screen customers' orders. (opens korrents.com)
“It should be hard — exceedingly hard — to obtain the synthetic DNA needed to recreate the virus that caused the deadly 1918 influenza pandemic without authorization. But my lab found that it’s surprisingly easy, even…”
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The tools that make biology powerful for medicine are the same tools that make it dangerous, so the benefits and the misuse risk cannot be separated. (opens korrents.com)
“Our experiment demonstrates that the immense potential benefits of biotechnology are profoundly vulnerable to misuse.”
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The genome sequences of pandemic viruses and the protocols for building them from synthetic DNA are already freely available online. (opens korrents.com)
“Both the genome sequences of pandemic viruses and step-by-step protocols to make infectious samples from synthetic DNA are now freely available online.”
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Ordering the synthetic DNA needed to rebuild the 1918 influenza virus is surprisingly easy, even from companies that screen customers' orders. (opens korrents.com)