Synbio

[busterdog]

We didn't much like genetic modification (GM) by the time it reached trials in the UK in the 1990s, but that could come to look like a storm in a teacup compared to synbio. While GM was about adding or knocking out the odd gene, synbio is about using nature as a giant Meccano set, building entirely new organisms from bits of DNA called BioBricks in what's known as the bottom-up approach.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists...196397,00.html

:woah:

[Grateful1]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists...196397,00.html

:woah:

Wow. How can supposedly "smart" people be so dumb?

[Ruth]

I don't know how much longer this can go on before there is a superbug that will wipe out civilization.

Maranatha!

[Adopted Son]

I don't know how much longer this can go on before there is a superbug that will wipe out civilization.

Maranatha!

Well, that's part of what's predicted. I always assumed it was a poison released when 'wormwood' decends on the planet, but it certainly could be human generated couldn't it?