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ahh found it:
"considerable concern has been raised over "gene-specific biological
weapons".These are said to be able to attack specific races.Little is known
about them publicly,but a 1994 US "Military Affairs and Conflicts Short of
War",sketched out a fictional war set in 2010.The authors,US military
theoriticians,Steven Metz and James Kievit,state that "certain biotechnical
weapons-considered by some to violatethe biological warfare convention to
which the United States is a signatory -also may transgress American
values".
Metz and Kievit continue by discussing the public reaction to these weapons
that could target "Africans,Jews,Koreans,Hispanics,etc.The authors so not
include any Anglo-Saxons in their "ethnic cleansing" targetting list."

their ya go,unfortunatly it isnt as specific as you were,and dosent say
actually *how* they are constructed to infect only one particular group.
AIDS dosent seem to care who it infects so i would have to say i think it
was just a mistake,my mind is still open though,so tell me what you all
think.


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dan the man wrote in message ...
>On Tue, 28 Jul 1998, Firestarter wrote:
>
>> hmmm,mabye they can be made to operate on a genetic level.....will get
back
>> to ya on that one.
>
>??  They do work at a genetic level, how do you think they reproduce  ??
>Retroviridae actually integrate into your DNA, which is why they are used
>in genetic engineering and potential future gene therapy.  Still the virus
>has to get into the cell first!
>
>Or are you suggesting a non-selective cellular infection followed by
>selective genomic integration based on DNA sequence specificity?
>Of course that kind of sequence specific integration can be achieved in
>certain systems (re: homologous recombination in yeast and homologous
>recombination in the targetting of embryonic stem cells to produce
>transgenic mice), but it's too messy.
>
>If all the suppositions postulated here about virus creation (there isn't
>a Virus Creation Lab of the biological world!) then we would have the
>perfect system for gene-therapy, a cure for cancer and the ability to
>specifically deliver drugs to the point of action.  Which would be very
>nice, but doesn't EXIST!
>
>dan
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