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Virions and memes

Virions and memes

Five weeks to go until I hand in my complete PhD draft. Thought I’d celebrate by posting some of the fun virus bits I found online On Nov 13, USA Today (anyone have a better reference on this?) reported that "geonomics pioneer" Craig Venter’s research group created a synthetic bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) – an artifical virus – in two weeks. "When researchers created a synthetic genome (genetic map) of the virus and implanted it into a cell,…

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