Synthetic biology tend to go for things that's not optimized for spreading around in people and killing them. They'll be used to produce products and goods for human consumption, which preclude genes spent on being viral and deadly.
I think you're missing the point. Once its a lot more trivial to synthesize a cell from data its not just blue skies scientists involved anymore. When anyone can do whatever they like you will get misuse of the technology.
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Synthetic biology tend to go for things that's not optimized for spreading around in people and killing them. They'll be used to produce products and goods for human consumption, which preclude genes spent on being viral and deadly.
I think you're missing the point. Once its a lot more trivial to synthesize a cell from data its not just blue skies scientists involved anymore. When anyone can do whatever they like you will get misuse of the technology.