CRISPR and the New Biology

Autor: Elizabeth Florescu, Yair Sharan, Ted J. Gordon
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Tripping Points on the Roads to Outwit Terror ISBN: 9783030725709
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-72571-6_5
Popis: When the coronavirus pandemic blasted into the world in late 2019, some conspiracy theorists speculated that the virus that causes the pneumonia-like disease COVID-19 was no more or less than a snippet of genetic material that had escaped from a Chinese bio-weapons lab in Wuhan China, or a terrorist weapon introduced by insane sects to kill millions. Regardless, the pandemic illustrated what a bio-weapon could do. Historians of the future, looking back at our time may consider CRISPR technology to be one of the most important inventions of our time and certainly pivotal to the evolution of bio-terrorism.
Databáze: OpenAIRE