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Engineering “bad stuff” with kits like this is virtually impossible. Synthetic biology is still difficult and expensive, and what can be done without a large bu
by _yb2s 4y ago
Engineering “bad stuff” with kits like this is virtually impossible. Synthetic biology is still difficult and expensive, and what can be done without a large budget for massive , robotically automated trial and error is still very limited.
That said, to help evolve antibiotic resistant bacteria all you have to do is not properly finish a course of antibiotics.
- Ultimatt 4y agoYou are underestimating how easy it is to email a lab service to synthesise a plasmid for you... Just first hit from google is this place in the EU https://eurofinsgenomics.eu/en/gene-synthesis-molecular-biology/gene-synthesis/plasmide/ https://eurofinsgenomics.eu/en/gene-synthesis-molecular-biol... But you can find them in less scrupulous countries with less well trained people, and in general it's widespread as a service. Almost nothing is done to actually check for how dangerous what's being produced is, other than what you tell someone.
- _yb2s 4y agoI don’t think so, as a synthetic biologist I usually need to iterate hundreds of plasmid designs minimum to get even simple novel pathways working. What are you going to put on that plasmid that will be dangerous, and how? What are the chances it will work?