http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2010/09/14/welsh_scientists_clone_human_virus.html
Summary
A team of welsh scientist have succesfully cloned a human virus offering a new hope for potentially life threating diseases. HCMV is a virus known to cause life-threating diseases in transplant patients and people with aids/hiv. The devoloptment of new treatments have been hampered because scientist have not been able to reproduce HCMV outside the human body. HCMV has,by far, the largest genome of all viruses affecting humans.Cloning the virus for the first time will help viroloigist develop antiviruses and vaccinees.
Opinion
I do think its pretty cool that we are cloning the virus,but i think that its not that big of an accomlishment. I know its getting us closer to the devolop ment of vacccines but as of right now its doing nothing for us right now. I know its important to keep us updated but they need to be more concerned about killing the virus not growing it.It is pretty cool though we have this capability and who knows what else we could clone with this. Thats what I think about virus cloning.
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