How far do you think we are from home build-a-virus kits?
No real idea—more research is needed (by risk analysts), and even then, we don’t know what may or may not be discovered soon in synthetic biology.
Being possible or being on the market? Possible: 5 years. On the market: why would this ever be on the market?!
Something like the DIYbio movement might want to put something like that on the market, so that people could learn to play with genomes the same way that home computers taught people to play with software.
How far do you think we are from home build-a-virus kits?
No real idea—more research is needed (by risk analysts), and even then, we don’t know what may or may not be discovered soon in synthetic biology.
Being possible or being on the market? Possible: 5 years. On the market: why would this ever be on the market?!
Something like the DIYbio movement might want to put something like that on the market, so that people could learn to play with genomes the same way that home computers taught people to play with software.