from Hacker News

How to make your own SARS-CoV-2 variants

by hn-0001 on 1/26/22, 4:25 AM with 8 comments

• by Reubend on 1/26/22, 8:19 AM

  This is interesting, and the blob post is well written.

  However, to play devil's advocate... If it's true that "an undergrad would have a good chance of success" at this procedure, then perhaps writing a blog post about it and helping publicize it is doing more harm than good?

• by beardyw on 1/26/22, 9:33 AM

  Perhaps we will get less ransomware as they change over to this.

• by totony on 1/26/22, 3:22 PM

  The good old knowledge = dangerous

  Of course a lot of knowledge is dangerous (how to make xray, nuclear, etc ). Do we really want to filter it because of bad actors?

• by greazy on 1/26/22, 11:31 AM

  This technique is nothing new and commonly used in influenza.

  Good luck producing viable virus though. Many mutations are deleterious to organism.