Monday, April 10, 2006
Biotechnology’s advance could give malefactors the ability to manipulate life processes--and even affect human behavior.
"Technology Review is running an eye-opening article on how biotechnology has advanced to the point where producing bio-weapons that were once only possible with the backing of governments with enormous resources is now possible with equipment purchased off eBay. You can now purchase a mini-lab of equipment for less than $10,000. The writer also interviewed a former Soviet bioweaponeer, Serguei Popov, who worked at the Biopreparat, the Soviet agency that secretly developed biological weapons. Popov has since moved to the US and provided a great deal of information on the types of weapons the Soviets were developing."
source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/09/1944226
source:http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/09/1944226
# posted by dark master : 4/10/2006 10:05:00 AM
