I was listening to the Long Now seminar on synthetic biology. One of the speakers mentioned you can buy a DNA synthesizer on eBay. I've heard this for years and

I was listening to the Long Now seminar on synthetic biology. One of the speakers mentioned you can buy a DNA synthesizer on eBay. I've heard this for years and never believed it, but a 2 second search on ebay actually listed one for sale. No, its not my auction I just thought it was interesting that we are getting to the point where we could have genetic engineering startups in garages in Palo Alto.