The human DNA is similar to a hard disk where all the information of our genetics is stored and that is conserved and replicated from generation to generation over time, so it is not surprising that biohackers have managed to intervene in the structure that keeps our history.
Biohackers managed to intervene a human DNA chain with an informatic virus
Before this hazana, what had been achieved with the DNA was to code it and then download it again to a computer.
However, it is now possible for malware to also be stored in a DNA strand .But not to spread the panic yet, because this sounds much scarier than it really is.
A malware is nothing more and nothing less than a virus designed to infect computers in order to cause damage to the user and, first of all, benefit the person who created the program. Something like the computer viruses that act with It is a benign program.
The malware that the biohackers inserted in this case is like a computer virus that in principle will not cause any kind of damage, acting as a benign program.no type of genetic malware, in which a biological "code" will wreak havoc on a person or animal.It is a computer virus, harmlessly embedded in the DNA.
But although harmless , it took considerable effort.The biohackers had to synthesize their own strand of DNA and then attach specific chemicals to the DNA nucleotides, A, T, G and C, which in turn are the units of individual "codes" of the DNA chain.
Only certain proportions of nucleotides were stable, so most of their synthesized chains were unstable.tually, however, they succeeded; the lines of code became unusual combinations of nucleotides.
This research was conducted by the biohackers of the University of Washington and was presented in the USENIX security conference in Vancouver.
At the event, they explained the purpose of their experiment.When a gene sequencing device reads this DNA chain, the data stored in the processing system is they will assemble into a malicious virus .
Gene sequencing is becoming exponentially cheaper, faster and on the way to becoming an ubiquitous technology.In addition to the medical services that use it to to detect genetic defects, it is likely that much more will be used in the future to determine someone's identity .Instead of using PIN or retinal scans to access bank accounts or enter secure locations, it will be scanned quickly the material ge netico thus facilitating these procedures.
If a hacker encodes his body or even a tissue sample with malware, then he could circumvent this form of security without difficulty and although this is far away to become a reality, the achievement of biohackers makes it more likely.
What do you think? Did you think that DNA could be intervened with a computer virus?
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