Not even close to the same thing. That's taking an existing viral transfection system and swapping in a single gene. Thermo Fisher sells a kit to do this [1].

Not even close to the same thing. That's taking an existing viral transfection system and swapping in a single gene. Thermo Fisher sells a kit to do this [1]. It's something you might do a few thousand times on the way to actually generating a novel virus. > I’d argue estimate the risks of a synthetically induced pandemic of massive impact this century are very high I'd argue that it probably already happened, and had nothing to do with AI. [1] AAV transfection.