Stephen Maurer Questions New Synthetic DNA Screening Guidelines

Nature News, October 18, 2010 by Heidi Ledford
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101018/full/467898a.html

Stephen Maurer … adds that the guidelines call for an initial automated screen of sequences by computer, a less stringent survey than getting employees to analyse each order as it comes in, as many companies already do. “You have a strange situation in which the US government is urging a lower security standard on the world,” he says.