Reply #1: I'd like to point out to the tinfoil beanie crowd [View All]

[Warpy]

that what they did was cut and paste from one virus to another. They didn't create a virus, nor did they create the gene sequence within it. They just aren't capable of that as yet.

However poorly this serves the CIA/virus creation paranoia crowd, this is important work that could unlock the how and why of extreme virulence and could have an effect in virology across the board.