US Military Report Warns Of Terrifying New Bioterrorism Threat
By Tom Hale
20 Jun 2018, 14:50
The idea of bioterrorism and biological warfare is nothing new. As far back as antiquity, people have been meddling with biological materials and using them as a weapon. However, in the emerging era of synthetic biology, this old threat has an ugly new face.
The US Department of Defense has recently commissioned the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to look at the biggest threats posed by the rapidly advancing field of "synthetic biology".
All in all, the report is pretty damn scary but devilishly fascinating.
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/us-military-report-warns-of-terrifying-new-bioterrorism-threat/
