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3rd September 2009 - Link Blog

On Influenza A (H1N1). “It’s humbling that I could be killed by 3.2kbytes of genetic data. Then again, with 850 Mbytes of data in my genome, there’s bound to be an exploit or two.”

Posted 3rd September 2009 at 9:25 am

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