{"id":102357,"date":"2020-02-14T08:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/biologists-are-already-printing-the-deadly-covid-19-virus"},"modified":"2020-02-14T08:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T16:24:33","slug":"biologists-are-already-printing-the-deadly-covid-19-virus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/biologists-are-already-printing-the-deadly-covid-19-virus","title":{"rendered":"Biologists Are Already Printing the Deadly COVID-19 Virus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biologists-are-already-printing-the-deadly-covid-19-virus.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Still, the fact that many labs worldwide are capable of printing viruses is worrisome.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, for instance, Canadian researchers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/07\/how-canadian-researchers-reconstituted-extinct-poxvirus-100000-using-mail-order-dna\">alarmed the scientific community<\/a> when they assembled synthetic horsepox in a lab \u2014 a virus closely related to smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions before researchers developed a vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>The same technique, the researchers said at the time, could be be used to bring back smallpox, giving terrorists tools to set off a deadly pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Still, the fact that many labs worldwide are capable of printing viruses is worrisome. A few years ago, for instance, Canadian researchers alarmed the scientific community when they assembled synthetic horsepox in a lab \u2014 a virus closely related to smallpox, which killed hundreds of millions before researchers developed a vaccine. The same technique, the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,2414],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}