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Yikes! spraying people with random DNA fragments?

That sounds like a great way to end up with viri/cancer. Plus a lot of the chemicals used in manipulating DNA are extremely carcinogenic.

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Do you have any support for the claims you just made? Synthetically made DNA is not going to give people viruses or cancer when physically applied. It’s hard for me to imagine it doing much of anything even if inhaled/consumed. Similarly, the replication and purification of synthetic DNA is trivially easy to purify of any contaminants.

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