Forced evolution: Can we mutate viruses to death?

Tuesday, November 11, 2008 - 12:49 in Mathematics & Economics

It sounds like a science fiction movie: A killer contagion threatens the Earth, but scientists save the day with a designer drug that forces the virus to mutate itself out of existence. The killer disease? Still a fiction. The drug? It could become a reality thanks to a new study by Rice University bioengineers...

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