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To: Snowshoe who wrote (41)	10/25/2001 11:25:53 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 827

Polymer makes sense. Maybe some kind of resin. My WAG (wild assed guess) is that the technology isn't all that different from technologies used for non-biowar processes. Bacillus thuringiensis and bacillus popilliae, which have similar phenotypes to bacillus anthracis, are widely used as biocides, the biological version of pesticides. If you recall the hooraw about bioengineered corn, it was engineered to have genetic material from Bacillus thuringiensis in order to kill caterpillars, but it turned out to also kill monarch butterflies. The info is out there, it just takes some familiarity with microbiology to put it all together.