As a type 1 diabetic though taking insulin really isn't that much hassle but having no immune system through taking immuno supressant drugs I can't see working that way so persoanlly I would far rather stick to insulin
releasing genetic code into the public domin won't help bioterrorists,
just knowing what the sequence of a piece of dna doesn't help a person know what it does or how that code can be used to alter other organisms pathogenic or otherwise
the majority of academic genetics is already open source just look at http://www.embl.org, http://www.ensembl.org, http://www.ebi.ac.uk and this is software and dna sequences, computer code and the genetic code annot be equated we by no means understand teh gentic code well enough yet for that sort of thing to be possible and certainly is unlikely that we will in the near future
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As a type 1 diabetic though taking insulin really isn't that much hassle but having no immune system through taking immuno supressant drugs I can't see working that way so persoanlly I would far rather stick to insulin
releasing genetic code into the public domin won't help bioterrorists, just knowing what the sequence of a piece of dna doesn't help a person know what it does or how that code can be used to alter other organisms pathogenic or otherwise the majority of academic genetics is already open source just look at http://www.embl.org, http://www.ensembl.org, http://www.ebi.ac.uk and this is software and dna sequences, computer code and the genetic code annot be equated we by no means understand teh gentic code well enough yet for that sort of thing to be possible and certainly is unlikely that we will in the near future