Saturday, March 18, 2006

Biowar for Dummies

'The real cost of villainy is in overhead. Even with the ready availability of equipment, you still need space, staff, and time. Brent guesses he would need a couple million dollars to whip up a batch of smallpox from scratch. No need for state sponsors or stolen top-secret germ samples. “An advanced grad student could do it,” Brent says. Especially with the help of some high schoolers who actually went to lab classes.'

'It sounds like submicroscopic surgery, but all you do is squirt chemicals into a culture dish and let it all soak overnight.'

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