alt Hacker NewsThis almost throwaway line from the article struck me as an example of what we can do with technology, if we choose to put our billions of dollars towards it: "I downloaded the BC30 genome".
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creaktive • today at 11:07 AM
What’s even more shocking to me: one can “3D-print” downloaded genome, too! What a time to be alive.
Terr_ • today at 5:29 PM
You might enjoy: "Reverse Engineering the source code of the BioNTech/Pfizer SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine" (2020)
Being much smaller than a whole organism genome, the base-pairs are literally published in a WHO Word-document. :p
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source...
It's a shame it became such a weird political football, because the story of the mRNA COVID vaccine is absolutely in the "we are as gods" pantheon - the virus was sequenced, and 3 days later two separate labs had sequences for the vaccine. Phase 1 trials began within 3 months. To go from "weird novel pathogen" to "enough engineered vaccine candidate to start Phase 1 trials" is some legitimate sci-fi shit.