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"It's perfectly legal to ship Ebola or Small Pox genes to a US Address"

 
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"It's perfectly legal to ship Ebola or Small Pox genes to a US Address"
"..The United States imposes few security regulations on synthetic DNA providers. It’s perfectly legal to make a batch of genes from Ebola or smallpox and ship it to a U.S. address, no questions asked — although actually creating the virus from that genetic material may be illegal under laws governing the possession of certain pathogens."


Implementing effective security, though, is tough — as is enforcing any kind of norm in a sprawling, multinational industry.

“...This capability is increasingly powerful in terms of how long the DNA fragments can be, what you can create with them, the ability of recipients to then assemble the DNA fragments into a new virus,” said Gregory Koblentz, a biodefense researcher at George Mason University. “This is the kind of thing that we really should be more proactive on — and try to get ahead of the curve.”

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