Great! I guess these people don’t watch “ReGeneis” otherwise they might not be so quick to mess around with genetic engineering:

Using homemade lab equipment and the wealth of scientific knowledge available online, these hobbyists are trying to create new life forms through genetic engineering — a field long dominated by Ph.D.s toiling in university and corporate laboratories.

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Jim Thomas of ETC Group, a biotechnology watchdog organization, warned that synthetic organisms in the hands of amateurs could escape and cause outbreaks of incurable diseases or unpredictable environmental damage.
“Once you move to people working in their garage or other informal location, there’s no safety process in place,” he said.

And of course we have to worry about terrorists deliberately trying to release an incurable disease or environmental damage.

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