Scientists develop method that ensures safe research on deadly flu viruses

The strategy will enable healthy molecules in human lung cells to latch on to these viruses and cut the bugs up before they have a chance to infect the human host.

Ed Rybicki‘s insight:

Excellent idea: engineer in sequences that allow naturally-occurring miRNA sequences in the human, but not the ferret lung, to snip the viral DNA so that it cannot cause a problem.

HOWEVER: do you suppose they have considered what happens when the engineered influenza virus, were it to go wild, mutates so as to avoid getting the snip?

See on www.sciencedaily.com

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One Response to “Scientists develop method that ensures safe research on deadly flu viruses”

gsgs Says:
7 August, 2014 at 17:38 | Reply
but advance for science is also advance for possible evildoers
who could then do safer experiments …
So, better keep results like this secret ?!

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