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Fig. 1: Malicious DNA injection performed by a remote cyber-criminal.

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  1. Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Rami Puzis & Yuval Elovici

  2. Cyber Security Research Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Rami Puzis, Dor Farbiash, Oleg Brodt & Yuval Elovici

  3. Jusidman Science Center for Youth, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Dor Farbiash

  4. Telekom Innovation Labs, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

    Oleg Brodt

  5. Zvi Meitar Institute for Legal Implications of Emerging Technologies, IDC Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel

    Dov Greenbaum

  6. Harry Radzyner School of Law, IDC Herzliya, Herzliya, Israel

    Dov Greenbaum

  7. Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Dov Greenbaum

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Puzis, R., Farbiash, D., Brodt, O. et al. Increased cyber-biosecurity for DNA synthesis. Nat Biotechnol 38, 1379–1381 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-020-00761-y

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