Tuesday, March 10, 2020

Synthetic virus

A synthetic virus could help develop drugs, vaccines, and diagnostic tests but could also be used as a bioweapon


Emily Mullin

Mar 5 · 5 min read

Image: NIAID/Flickr

countries scramble to contain the novel coronavirus spreading around the world, scientists in Switzerland are intentionally making more of the deadly virus. The only difference is that their version is synthetic.

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