{"id":2454,"date":"2015-07-31T10:51:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2015-07-31T10:51:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:51:17","slug":"designer-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/designer-virus\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Virus&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Viruses as Gene Therapy Vectors<br \/>\nResearchers deploy ancestors of today\u2019s adeno-associated viruses to deliver gene therapies without immune system interference.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/43646\/title\/Ancient-Viruses-as-Gene-Therapy-Vectors\/\">http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/43646\/title\/Ancient-Viruses-as-Gene-Therapy-Vectors\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing to me is that the _exact same_ techniques can be used to produce a variant for a <a href=\"http:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/15\/the-genie-is-out-of-the-bioterrorism-and-pandemic-bottles-how-scared-should-we-be\/\">lethal virus<\/a>, yet there have been no calls to bury this research.<\/p>\n<p>A hammer can be a tool for building a house, or a weapon for bashing someone&#8217;s brains out, but it is still just a lump of metal at the end of a shaft. One interesting thing about this tool is while it is trivial for a non-carpenter to grab up a hammer and kill someone with it, in order to use the techniques mentioned in the article to develop a lethal virus you actually have to be smarter than the people who developed the original tool.  That day will come, of course, but it does mean that it isn&#8217;t likely to be a tool for terrorists, at least not ones with poor resources.  No doubt a bent billionaire could hire the right people to develop such a weapon, but how realistic is that?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we are slowly creeping towards a high quality medical system that can fix all sorts of chronic problems.  In a generation or two hence these problems will be relegated to the medical history books.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t happen soon enough for me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ancient Viruses as Gene Therapy Vectors Researchers deploy ancestors of today\u2019s adeno-associated viruses to deliver gene therapies without immune system interference. http:\/\/www.the-scientist.com\/?articles.view\/articleNo\/43646\/title\/Ancient-Viruses-as-Gene-Therapy-Vectors\/ The interesting thing to me is that the _exact same_ techniques can be used to produce a variant for a lethal virus, yet there have been no calls to bury this research. A &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/31\/designer-virus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Designer Virus&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-healthcare","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2455,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions\/2455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sol-biotech.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}