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So funny story, the guy who recommended Alibek's book to me did his Ph. D thesis on recombinant techniques using muffukkin' ebola as the carrier. To no one's surprise, he ended up working at Ft. Detrick.
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Right? It's so far past the normal "what could go wrong?" high water marks that you expect to hear Dan Akroyd saying it.
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I mean, I could see it having some niche application. Like rabbies and a few others get used all the time in brain research for transfecting neurons. Though depending on when your friend did their Ph.D, the recombinant controversy conversation could have been focused anywhere from insulin to GMOs to gene drives.
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