{"id":142861,"date":"2022-07-26T00:22:53","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/ever-heard-about-bio-weapons-that-use-dna-to-kill-specific-person-they-are-reality-now"},"modified":"2022-07-26T00:22:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T05:22:53","slug":"ever-heard-about-bio-weapons-that-use-dna-to-kill-specific-person-they-are-reality-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/ever-heard-about-bio-weapons-that-use-dna-to-kill-specific-person-they-are-reality-now","title":{"rendered":"Ever heard about bio-weapons that use DNA to kill specific person? They are reality now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ever-heard-about-bio-weapons-that-use-dna-to-kill-specific-person-they-are-reality-now.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A U.S. House Intelligence Committee member cautioned that bioweapons using a target\u2019s DNA to kill only that individual are being created. US Representative Jason Crow of Colorado spoke on Friday at the Aspen Security Forum and cautioned Americans not to be too careless about sharing their DNA with private firms due to the impending arrival of the new type of weapon. \u201cYou can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the battlefield or make them inoperable,\u201d Crow said. \u201cYou can take someone\u2019s DNA, you know, take their medical profile,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Given the prevalence of DNA testing services, where customers voluntarily share their genetic mapping with companies to learn more about their ancestry and health, the congressman said it is concerning that these weapons are being developed. Although 23andMe has maintained time and time again that it does not sell its customers\u2019 private information, it is one of many DNA companies that have done so when asked by the police.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, US Senator Joni Ernst of Iowa claimed that the US\u2019s adversaries may deploy such DNA bioweapons to attack food supply on a large scale. Ernst forewarned that specific animals relied upon by civilians, armies, or towns could be the target of biological weapons, resulting in scarcity and food poverty and weakening populations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. House Intelligence Committee member cautioned that bioweapons using a target\u2019s DNA to kill only that individual are being created. US Representative Jason Crow of Colorado spoke on Friday at the Aspen Security Forum and cautioned Americans not to be too careless about sharing their DNA with private firms due to the impending arrival [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412,1495,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics","category-health","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}