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What if Terrorists Could Weaponize Covid?

Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford

CHAPTER

The Potential of Synthetic Biology

Michael Bociurkiw: We just made a vaccine that has been administered billions of times. He says there's an opportunity to try and make vaccines for other illnesses, not COVID. But beyond that, people are using synthetic biology to replace plastics, he says. "It has unlimited potential because it's the potential of biology"

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