http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,11197760^401,00.html
Such designer weapons would be based on the growing ability of scientists to unravel and compare human DNA.
In theory, experts could engineer organisms to attack genetic variations commonly found in, say, Chinese or German populations.
Genetically engineered anthrax, smallpox and polio viruses are also "approaching reality", the BMA claims in a new report, Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity II.
The report, released yesterday in London, adds that organisms designed to attack food crops and even human immune and nervous systems are serious threats.
Such designer weapons would be based on the growing ability of scientists to unravel and compare human DNA.
In theory, experts could engineer organisms to attack genetic variations commonly found in, say, Chinese or German populations.
Genetically engineered anthrax, smallpox and polio viruses are also "approaching reality", the BMA claims in a new report, Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity II.
The report, released yesterday in London, adds that organisms designed to attack food crops and even human immune and nervous systems are serious threats.
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Vanhimmat
Millä murteella sinä kirjoitat ja kenelle, ? Ei tuollaista mongerrusta suomalainen alennu lukemaan!
New support for the existence and significance of group, or racial, differences
in medicine comes from several contributors to the current Nature
Genetics, a leading journal of genetics. This already widely noted issue is
devoted to the question of whether inherited differences between groups should
be considered in medical research and treatment, and though various authors deny
the relevance of such differences, Sarah Tishkoff (University of Maryland) and
Kenneth Kidd (Yale) in “Implications of biogeography of human populations for
race and magazine” report that racial differences indeed exist, while Joanna L.
Mountain and Neil Risch, both of Stanford, in “Assessing genetic contributions
to phenotypic differences between among ‘racial’ and ‘ethnic’ groups,” recognize
racial disparities and regard them as important for medical treatment. The
careful (and sometimes cautious) findings of these scholars may seem all too
obvious, but they are an important corrective, in an authoritative source, to
efforts to use such recent advances in genetic knowledge as the Genome to
obscure the fact and the importance of racial differences.
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/dynapage.taf?file=/ng/journal/v36/n11s/index.\
html
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/n\
g1438.html
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/n\
g1456.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/science/27race.html