If you could you might as well just register for the service and use it legally. It’s not like any of those biology-as-a-service companies evaluate what their customers synthesize for pathogenicity.
There’s almost definitely government working group for biosafety that think about issues like this.
Asking a DNA synthesis company to check their order against a handful of genes and report back when a customer tries to order one of those isn’t complicated.
If you could you might as well just register for the service and use it legally. It’s not like any of those biology-as-a-service companies evaluate what their customers synthesize for pathogenicity.
They might have filters in place that alert them when someone tries to synthesise small pox or the Spanish flu.
I doubt they do. Why would they bother?
There’s almost definitely government working group for biosafety that think about issues like this.
Asking a DNA synthesis company to check their order against a handful of genes and report back when a customer tries to order one of those isn’t complicated.
The companies inturn prefer informal solutions.