> Wonder how badly it could go if the data storage container is ruptured while against someone's body? TL;DR: pretty much zero unless you're immunocompromised

> Wonder how badly it could go if the data storage container is ruptured while against someone's body? TL;DR: pretty much zero unless you're immunocompromised The price tag of the broken equipment and bacterial infections are probably the biggest concerns. Genetic information is like software. It doesn't do anything unless it's in a compatible environment. Eukaryotic cells like those in plants, animals, fungi are delicate. Viruses which can write DNA into them without killing them have to be complicated, which makes the viruses delicate. Being this delicate means work with these cells and viruses can be very expensive. Why try to use a multi-Xeon server rack with fiber links when all you need is a cluster of 5 Raspberry Pis and a bare bones router? The latter is way cheaper. For the same reasons, well-understood bacterial models like tame E. Coli strains are popular in biocomputing [1]. Slime molds [2][3] are also popular, and they're even famously good at pathfinding. Your coworkers, however, might be annoyed that you broke the biocomputer again. [1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421265/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6421265/ [2] https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-642-27737-5_686-1 https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-6... [3] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.0216 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.021...