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From: werner@aecom.yu.edu (Craig Werner)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: biotech weapons
Message-ID: <2593@aecom.yu.edu>
Date: 15 Nov 89 05:48:36 GMT
References: <60608@tiger.oxy.edu>
Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY
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In article <60608@tiger.oxy.edu>, palosaari@oxy.edu (Jedidiah Jon Palosaari) writes:
> Could a biotech weapon be made that would disrupt DNA replication etc.
> using a varient of DNase?

	Several drugs with that effect although not that mechanism
already exist, and while they make relatively lousy weapons, some of them
don't make half bad anti-cancer agents.

-- 
	        Craig Werner   (future MD/PhD, 4.5 years down, 2.5 to go)
	     werner@aecom.YU.EDU -- Albert Einstein College of Medicine
              (1935-14E Eastchester Rd., Bronx NY 10461, 212-931-2517)
           "My philosophy, like color TV, is all there in black and white."