The End Is Near...

[Fred Bloggs]

People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 1:25:00 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:

People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.

They might be able to bio-engineer something. Whether they could make it lethal is less obvious.

Precisely what - at the genome level - makes bacterium or fungus lethal isn\'t all that clear. If the kit came with an encyclopdia of the genomes of all the deadly bugs that have been sequenced so far, it might be more of a threat.

The small stack of paper in the middle of the picture doesn\'t seem likely to be quite that informative.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10:30:38 AM UTC-5, bill....@ieee.org wrote:

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 1:25:00 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.
They might be able to bio-engineer something. Whether they could make it lethal is less obvious.

Precisely what - at the genome level - makes bacterium or fungus lethal isn\'t all that clear. If the kit came with an encyclopdia of the genomes of all the deadly bugs that have been sequenced so far, it might be more of a threat.

The small stack of paper in the middle of the picture doesn\'t seem likely to be quite that informative.

What will happen is Russian government biowarfare operatives posing as hobbyists/ students will give them some ideas about how cool it would be to start a dysentery epidemic, and go from there. Link to the anthrax shop on the dark web.

https://www.cdc.gov/anthrax/bioterrorism/index.html

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Fred Bloggs]

On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10:30:38 AM UTC-5, bill....@ieee.org wrote:

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 1:25:00 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.
They might be able to bio-engineer something. Whether they could make it lethal is less obvious.

Precisely what - at the genome level - makes bacterium or fungus lethal isn\'t all that clear.

It\'s the toxins they produce that kill. Presumably they can transplant the genes responsible for toxin production into other forms of bacteria.

If the kit came with an encyclopdia of the genomes of all the deadly bugs that have been sequenced so far, it might be more of a threat.

The small stack of paper in the middle of the picture doesn\'t seem likely to be quite that informative.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[John Larkin]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:24:55 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
<bloggs.fredbloggs.fred@gmail.com> wrote:

People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.

Every microsecond, trillions of critters all over the planet are doing
genetic experiments.

Our defense against novel pathogens is our genetic diversity, and now
science. A former defense was geographic diversity, but ships and
planes pretty much trashed that.

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 3:17:58 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:

On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10:30:38 AM UTC-5, bill....@ieee.org wrote:
On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 1:25:00 AM UTC+11, Fred Bloggs wrote:
People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.

They might be able to bio-engineer something. Whether they could make it lethal is less obvious.

Precisely what - at the genome level - makes bacterium or fungus lethal isn\'t all that clear.

It\'s the toxins they produce that kill. Presumably they can transplant the genes responsible for toxin production into other forms of bacteria.

That\'s one way they can kill. Finding a version of the bacterium that can thrive well enough somewhere in the human system to generate enough representatives to generate enough toxin to do any damage is a bit trickier

If the kit came with an encyclopdia of the genomes of all the deadly bugs that have been sequenced so far, it might be more of a threat.

The small stack of paper in the middle of the picture doesn\'t seem likely to be quite that informative.

--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Anthony William Sloman]

On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 6:49:32 AM UTC+11, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 06:24:55 -0800 (PST), Fred Bloggs
bloggs.fred...@gmail.com> wrote:

People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.

Every microsecond, trillions of critters all over the planet are doing genetic experiments.

Generating the occasional inexact copy is doing a genetic experiment each time it happens. John Larkin might see that as intelligent design.

> Our defense against novel pathogens is our genetic diversity, and now science.

Our main defense is our immune system, which does have lot of variation from individual to individual, so it too is also evolving.

> A former defense was geographic diversity, but ships and planes pretty much trashed that.

For big cities with ports and airports. Cars and bicycles don\'t help, and they are cheaper than horses.

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Bill Sloman, Sydney

 

[Ricky]

On Saturday, January 28, 2023 at 10:25:00 AM UTC-4, Fred Bloggs wrote:

People can now genetically engineer lethal strains of bacteria and fungus in the comfort of their home.

https://www.the-odin.com/diy-crispr-kit/

\"BioHack the planet\" - are you kidding me.

I wonder if I could create a virus that would kill off all the bell pepper plants on the entire planet? That would improve the quality of my life.

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Rick C.

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