25 Dec 2008
Amateurs are trying genetic engineering at home

This is nothing if not horrifying - but, as with nukes, there's really no way top put this genie back in the bottle. As one of the DIY hackers notes, a terrorist need go through none of this, he could just enroll in some biology classes at the local community college.

It fills me with foreboding - if a computer hacker screws up we might get a Morris worm, but one fuck up on the part of these biohackers and humanity itself may well end up dead.

Merry Christmas.

AP - The Apple computer was invented in a garage. Same with the Google search engine. Now, tinkerers are working at home with the basic building blocks of life itself.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

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