‘Alien code’ leads to faster vaccines
June 5, 2006 | Source: NewScientist.com news service
Four years ago, Eckard Wimmer scared the world by making the polio virus from scratch. This prompted fears that terrorists would copy his methods to create deadly viruses of their own. Now his team at Stony Brook University in New York are using the same method to create weakened viruses that could speed up the development of new vaccines.