From: estropico (estropico@virgilio.it)
Date: Fri Jul 12 2002 - 03:13:25 MDT
If I remember my biology correctly, viruses are not considered fully living
organisms because they do not fit one of the fundamental requisites, i.e.
they cannot reproduce (without highjacking the machinery of a cell of a
fundamentally different organism).
Also, I think viruses have been produced in labs before. The (potentially
scary) point of the story is that it's possible to construct a *dangerous*
virus with materials that are not too difficult to obtain.
Cheers,
Fabio
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