So Ham Smith and Clyde Hutchison developed some new methods for making error free DNA at a small level.

And Ross says he feels more comfortable now than he ever did during his playing career at Clyde, Hartlepool, Falkirk, St Mirren and Hamilton Academical.

Ham Smith and Clyde Hutchison, my colleagues on this, developed an exciting new method that allowed us to synthesize a 5,000 base pair virus in only a two week period that was 100 percent accurate, in terms of its sequence and its biology.

Richard Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, suggested recently that the US could already be in the second decade of another American century. Likewise, Clyde Prestowitz, the president of the Economic Strategy Institute, has said that this century may well wind up being another American century.