“the genome” wouldn’t help really be of much use, in order creating pox from a genome you need to transplant the genome into a similar bacteria, which is no small feat, it would be much easier just to get your hands on the pathogen somehow, and you don’t need to know anything about bio-science to do that, just have a source. In this matter advancing technology is will not likely result increase risk.
I know, it’s hard to restore smallpox without a sample, harder still to create a new and unrecognizable disease, harder still to make one without using identifiable dangerous already-studied genes.
“the genome” wouldn’t help really be of much use, in order creating pox from a genome you need to transplant the genome into a similar bacteria, which is no small feat, it would be much easier just to get your hands on the pathogen somehow, and you don’t need to know anything about bio-science to do that, just have a source. In this matter advancing technology is will not likely result increase risk.
I know, it’s hard to restore smallpox without a sample, harder still to create a new and unrecognizable disease, harder still to make one without using identifiable dangerous already-studied genes.