What’s very interesting here is that there is no international framework for dealing with sequences that may be potentially harmful to the environment or human health. Also, how would one deal with ordering of small fragments of a lethal (to humans) gene that was ordered from multiple companies and shipped to multiple sites but would eventually end up in one individual’s hands? Is the onus on the government to collect information on the ordering of even just fragments of lethal genes, if not the full-length ones?
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-09/spu-tts091610.php
