Superbugs that resist known antibiotics kill more than two million people a year worldwide, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a number that could reach 10 million by 2050. Now those bugs may finally have met their doom, thanks to strings of DNA salvaged from our prehistoric ancestors.
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WE’RE ALL SUSPECTS IN A DNA LINEUP, WAITING TO BE MATCHED WITH A CRIME
“Make no mistake about it…your DNA can be taken and entered into a national DNA database if you are ever arrested, rightly or wrongly, and for whatever reason… I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.”—Justice Antonin Scalia dissenting in Maryland v. King
BENCHTOP DNA PRINTERS: A NEW WEAPON OF TERROR?
Research biologists editing DNA have been buying their DNA samples from about 100 specialty suppliers. Those samples have been used to create new drugs, biofuels, and crops.