Modern synthetic biology and AI represent both medicine’s greatest breakthrough and warfare’s most terrifying evolution. In this new landscape, where biological weapons can be designed faster than traditional defenses can be developed, recent government decisions risk abandoning our only countermeasure that can keep up: messenger ribonucleic acid, better known by its acronym, mRNA.Known most famously for the prominent role it played in vaccinations against SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), mRNA is a medical platform that can generate new defenses in days rather than years. In layperson’s terms, mRNA amounts to a temporary set of instructions that tells cells howThe post Defending Against the Next Bioweapon: the mRNA Imperative appeared first on War on the Rocks.
Defending Against the Next Bioweapon: the mRNA Imperative
