Chemical Synthesis of Poliovirus cDNA: Generation of Infectious Virus in the Absence of Natural Template (science.sciencemag.org)
Fears of bioterrorism and criticism of a recent Science paper that described creating poliovirus from mail - ordered DNA prompted a congressional resolution last week. (sciencemag.org)
Previously, he was a virologist for the World Health Organization Regional Reference Laboratory for poliovirus in his home country of Egypt. (wistar.org)