The development highlights the fact that we are moving out of the era where cells and DNA must be physically transferred from one location to another, says Voigt, to one in which biology is an information science. It would now be possible to sequence an organism's genome in San Francisco, e-mail the sequence across the country, and bring that organism into being in a lab in Maryland. "Just the information alone is able to reconstruct that organism and convert it back into life," says Voigt. pulled that from this article http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/25362/page2/ didnt the govt. want peoples dna for research, what if yourself comes to the door and takes your weed