Scientists bring back extinct horsepox virus in lab, raising important biosecurity questions

Tuesday, July 11, 2017 - 09:32 in Biology & Nature

In a laboratory in Alberta, Canada, a team of scientists recently pieced together overlapping segments of mail order DNA to form a synthetic version of an extinct virus.

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