When They Are Trying to Kill Us, Do Their Motives Matter?

From new potentially deadly synthetic pathogens to blocking our sun, our aspiring masters are attacking life from multiple angles. In doing so, they are reminding us of our courage.

By: Tessa Lena

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• From new potentially deadly synthetic pathogens to blocking the sun, our aspiring masters are attacking life from multiple angles

• A recent preprint reports on a new engineered variant that showed an 80% disease mortality rate in humanized mice

• While that particular result was based on humanized mice, so was the approval of t…