How the White House just made the world a little safer from biorisks
A lab at Ginkgo Bioworks in Boston, Massachusetts, in September 2022. | Bloomberg via Getty Images
New regulations are a win for safe synthetic DNA.
In the past, if you were a researcher who wanted to study a specific strand of DNA or RNA, you’d have to go through the laborious process of coaxing some bacteria to produce it for you in the lab.
Not anymore: These days, you can send your DNA or RNA order off to a synthetic biology lab that can print those genetic sequences for you.
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