Double Take Of The Day

From “All In The Fold“, Jonathan Keats, Discover:

“We’ve figured out a way to put these building blocks together at the right angles to form these very complex nanostructures,” Baker explains. He plans to stud the exterior with proteins from a whole suite of flu strains so that the immune system will learn to recognize them and be prepared to fend off future invaders. A single Death Star will carry 20 different strains of the influenza virus.

I had to read it three times before I realized there was an implied “proteins of” in that last sentence. Otherwise, it sounded like a “Death Star” to exterminate humans, not influenza.

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