May 2006 correspondance between James Randerson and Drew Endy
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GuardianDNA.pdf
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Author(s)
Endy, Drew
Date Issued
June 15, 2006
Abstract
I am a science journalist with the Guardian newspaper in London. We are a national daily paper. I am hoping to put together an investigative piece on how easy (or not) it would be for a would-be terrorist to put together the genome of a nasty organism like anthrax from scratch. For the purposes of the piece I am planning to approach a DNA synthesis company and ask them to make a fragment of a nasty toxin gene. Some companies have safeguards in place to prevent this kind of thing but others do not. (continued)
Subjects
DNA synthesis
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering
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