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I've assumed as much. I've also wondered if there is some sort ability to order innocuous sequence A from company a, innocuous sequence B from company b and th
by Teever 5y ago
I've assumed as much.
I've also wondered if there is some sort ability to order innocuous sequence A from company a, innocuous sequence B from company b and then in the privacy of your own lab do the DNA synthesis equivalent of A xor B to get dangerous sequence C.
- molbioguy 5y agoI think it would be hard to get all the required fragments without raising red flags. There aren't that many synthesis companies and it would take a lot of fragments. Assuming you could get the fragments, its getting easier to assemble (join) them quickly. A 40000 base pair T7 bacteriophage genome was recently assembled from 52 parts in a single reaction (one tube)!
- Teever 5y agoFragment issues aside, the kind of stuff I'm thinking about is somewhat like homomorphic encryption at a genetic/biochemistry level to side step regulations.