Weaponized Synthetic Biology

Subject: Weaponized Synthetic Biology

cleancut 23.06.17 - 05:34am
Four letters lol

four nucleotidez you doofus * +

norega 23.06.17 - 07:22am

@ shadow27 - 23.06.17 - 04:54am
It sounds more like something from a Matthew Reilly book than real life. But programmable bioweapons are coming and scientists are warning that they could be just as, if not more deadly than nuclear weapons.
The weapons use something known as synthetic biology, which is a bit like genetic engineering on steroids. Basically, it involves reprogramming genes to do specific things. Already scientists are working to use synthetic biology to create plants that can sniff out drugs at airports.

This type of thing isn't new I should imagine . Chemical and biological weapons are nasty and much worse long term than nuclear weapon effects . If you look into the Russians nuclear attack plans in the 50' and 60's they included mass use of chemical weapons on civilians. As people flee major cities chemical and biological weapons would be used in the outside area to kill those fleeing ground zero . The USA probably had the same plan * +

shadow27 23.06.17 - 10:29am
It's a step beyond mere biological weapons, or at least a refinement. Imagine you engineered a virus or disease which only targets somebody with very specific genetic markers, a kind of 'racially targeted' weapon is a very real possibility.

*Especially* in this current environment we find ourselves in.. * +

jayna 23.06.17 - 10:34am
Killer plants ave been killing animals n people who wonder into their paths, since time begun. Now we ave scientists proclaiming they ave invented a new gene structure. Cobbler's to that. * +

shadow27 23.06.17 - 10:40am
I want really BIG killer plants that walk. Day of the Triffids style. *