That suggests there would be a great danger in Mr Blair delaying further and risking a public backlash.

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Then the reader must be sure that Mitrokhin, writing in a great hurry, in great secrecy and in great danger, copied everything down right.

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Our ability to reprogram DNA itself will undoubtedly lead to great advances in medicine, but the danger is that these same techniques can be used to modify viruses, like H5N1 influenza, to become more and more lethal, potentially affecting millions around the globe.

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