On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Bill Frantz wrote:
At 2:51 PM 9/18/96 -0400, Black Unicorn wrote:
Culturing and growing anthrax is painfully simple. No DNA required.
Sorry Unicorn, you missed my point. (1) You need DNA to grow bacteria. You can get the DNA two ways. (A) You get a sample of the beast, or (B) You get a DNA sequence and then regenerate the DNA. (I don't think B is technically feasable yet.) (2) You can't send samples of the beast thru the net.
I think your point was that the net was not responsible for the proliferation of Anthrax development data. (Am I wrong?)
My point was that you need more than just information (but see below). You also need some materials that may be hard to get. Being totally ignorant in the anthrax growing area, I have no idea where I would get my starter bacteria. (Presumably any net-info would tell me. I haven't looked.)
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