The code of life
A group of researchers from the University of Washington has shown for the first time that it’s possible to encode malicious software into physical strands of DNA, so that when a gene sequencer analyzes it the resulting data becomes a program that corrupts gene-sequencing software and takes control of the underlying computer.
Biohackers Encoded Malware In A Strand Of DNA, by Andy Greenberg, Wired, 10 August 2017