as the technology raced forward, the superskyscrapers of genetic engineering became more and more attainable. Today, it will soon be possible, if it is not already, to re-create the smallpox virus in a lab just as Wimmer re-created polio. In fact, in an October 2014 opinion piece in the New York Times entitled “Resurrecting Smallpox? Easier Than You Think,” a highly respected professor at the University of Southern California, Leonard Adleman, described how his lab or others might make smallpox virus using a similar approach. In other words, we can now build 1,600-story genetic buildings.
