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Bioscience to bioweapons; Synthetic diamonds; Stem cell transplants

BBC Inside Science

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Last week saw the death in London of the 41st victim of a newly identified SARS-like virus called MERS. Virologists can manipulate flu genes to understand how the disease might spread between people. Engineered viruses could escape the lab or be used as weapons, so-called bioterrorism. These are the topics being debated tonight at the Society of Biology in London.

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