Cymek said:
CRISPR a WMD?
Was wondering it myself, could you use a flu virus/CRISPR combination (so it spreads far and wide) to disassemble DNA wide scale in the human body and kill people, you wouldn’t have any natural immunity?, as its destroys DNA.
What exactly would happen to a body whose DNA is being dissembled, something like radiation poisoning.
Hello CIA, this is a thought exercise and I am not a terror-ist
> Clapper didn’t lay out any particular bioweapons scenarios, but scientists have previously speculated about whether CRISPR could be used to make “killer mosquitoes,” plagues that wipe out staple crops, or even a virus that snips at people’s DNA.
The effect might by like that of a retrovirus, which copies itself into people’s genomes, or like a prion.
> a flu virus/CRISPR combination
I haven’t given any thought to this before, but I wouldn’t like to be around when it gets loose.