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Nature 432, 263 (18 November 2004) | doi:10.1038/432263a; Published online 17 November 2004
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Unanimous vote approves tweak to smallpox genome
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An influential committee at the World Health Organization (WHO) has voted in favour of modifying genes in the smallpox virus, and in the vaccine strains that eradicated the disease.If enacted, the recommendations would overturn decades of policy that govern the two remaining samples of the variola virus, which causes smallpox.
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