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"As Made-To-Order DNA Gets Cheaper, Keeping It Out Of The Wrong Hands Gets Harder" npr 9/24

"Emily Leproust, Twist Bioscience's CEO, estimates that the global synthetic DNA industry is currently churning out approximately 3 billion pairs of DNA letters a year—or about the same amount found in each human cell.

She says her company produces about 10 percent of that, and its customers include pharmaceutical firms, agricultural companies and academic scientists trying to understand basic biology.

"You log on to the website, you upload the sequence you want and you can order one gene or 10 genes or a thousand genes," explains Leproust.

A couple weeks later, custom DNA arrives in the mail."

apparently, lots of companies in the dna-producing space...gl