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"Maybe in the future you could use a virus or something to attack the pathogen," Ms. Natesan said.
Most gene therapy techniques use a virus to carry new genes into a cell but cannot direct the virus to insert genes at a specific site.
They could use a virus to turn the machines into "bots" to do their bidding.
To minimise risks, it is advisable to use a virus whose genetic backbone is highly attenuated in man.
Vaccine manufacturers commonly use a virus constructed from the backbone of a less infectious flu strain together with the hemagglutinin and neuraminidase genes of the strain they want to make a vaccine against.
"People worry a lot about viral bioterrorism, but the more you study viruses, the more you realize that it would be really difficult and expensive to actually use a virus as a weapon," he said.
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US researcher Eric Poeschla has produced three glowing GM cats by using a virus to carry a gene, called green fluorescent protein (GFP), into the eggs from which the animals eventually grew.
Ariad uses a virus to carry the genes into muscles.
Next was a scheme to weaken the fungus by using a virus.
In gene therapy new genes are inserted into cells, often using a virus as the vector to deliver the genes.
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