May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy
I am a science journalist with the Guardian newspaper in London. We are a national daily paper. I am hoping to put together an investigative piece on how easy (or not) it would be for a would-be terrorist to put together the genome of a nasty organism like anthrax from scratch. For the purposes of t...
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| description | I am a science journalist with the Guardian newspaper in London. We are a national daily paper. I am hoping to put together an investigative piece on how easy (or not) it would be for a would-be terrorist to put together the genome of a nasty organism like anthrax from scratch. For the purposes of the piece I am planning to approach a DNA synthesis company and ask them to make a fragment of a nasty toxin gene. Some companies have safeguards in place to prevent this kind of thing but others do not. (continued) |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/330012019-04-10T09:58:56Z May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy Endy, Drew DNA synthesis I am a science journalist with the Guardian newspaper in London. We are a national daily paper. I am hoping to put together an investigative piece on how easy (or not) it would be for a would-be terrorist to put together the genome of a nasty organism like anthrax from scratch. For the purposes of the piece I am planning to approach a DNA synthesis company and ask them to make a fragment of a nasty toxin gene. Some companies have safeguards in place to prevent this kind of thing but others do not. (continued) 2006-06-15T14:39:41Z 2006-06-15T14:39:41Z 2006-06-15T14:39:41Z Other http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/33001 en_US 66538 bytes application/pdf application/pdf |
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| title | May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy |
| title_full | May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy |
| title_fullStr | May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy |
| title_full_unstemmed | May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy |
| title_short | May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy |
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