Re: Virus built from scratch in two weeks

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Alex wrote:

> Well that makes you think why no one took a simple virus like HIV
> and knocked out the genes that program it's docking capabilities yet.
>
> Sounds simple enough.

It is - the trouble then is what on earth do you do with it?  How exactly
will that help people?  If you release it into the wild it'll in all
probability die out after the first innoculation, and then you're back to
square one.

Bennett