A novel threat to high technology

[Rynn]

There's a lab at my university working on synthetic bacteria for the breakdown of waste products. Pretty much all of the work is focused on designs that can only exist inside a highly controlled environment. It's pretty difficult to see how such a thing could pose a wider threat to society, if the reactor breaks the cells all die. There's not a lot of chance of them evolving to survive either because there's no selective pressure and these cells would have minimal genomes (perhaps just 200 genes) making them very fragile.