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West Point biochemist warns about threat of bioweapons
Updated on: January 20, 2021 / 9:11 AM
/ CBS News
In this episode of 
Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Dr. Ken Wickiser, a biochemist and associate dean of research at U.S. Military Academy West Point, about his piece Engineered Pathogens and Unnatural Biological Weapons: The Future Threat of Synthetic Biology. Wickiser describes the growing influence of synthetic biology and what can happen if it gets in the wrong hands.
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What is synthetic biology?  Synthetic biology is the process of engineering natural genetic systems. In terms of engineering: taking what nature has provided us and optimizing it, co-opting it, repurposing it, making it more efficient, and making it more cost effective. In large part for good purposes, to make new and novel biomaterials, to make new and novel pharmaceuticals. To make existing pharmaceuticals cheaper, more a ....

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