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> The leap from "folding DNA into shapes" to "making trees grow into a chair" is astounding in it's oversimplification.

Yep, agreed. Besides, you don't need to invoke DNA origami (nor the actual techniques you would use to achieve that, like typical genome manipulation) to get trees to grow into chairs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_shaping



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