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The bacteria is benign, it says so in the article.

• saycheese 10y ago
  Just because it's not pathogenic by default doesn't mean it could change or, more likely, be changed: http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/03/genetically-engineered-bioweapons-a-new-breed-of-weapons-for-modern-warfare/ http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/2013/03/genetically-engineered-bio...
• baldfat 10y ago
  They also said dinosaurs couldn't reproduce in Jurassic Park.
  • novia 10y ago
    Jurassic Park was also fiction.
    • baldfat 10y ago
      Come on it was funny.
• Cthulhu_ 10y ago
  Non-benign bacteria used to not be resistant to antibiotics, too.
  • planteen 10y ago
    NVM, deleted
    • euyyn 10y ago
      > That's not true. >> These genes may be transferred from non-disease-causing bacteria to those that do cause disease It looks like it's true.