Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scientists Claim

Re:Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scie... by kleopullin on Friday October 05, 2018 @09:28PM (#18152971)

Really? How many insects to genetically modify the Ukraine's wheat? I, too, wonder what they're doing.

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a buzz.

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Re:Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scie... by ryanhuff on Saturday October 06, 2018 @02:21AM (#18153829)

With so many crops engineered to withstand a particular herbicide like glyphosate, how likely is it that this standardization also creates a single bio profile that can be targeted?

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Re:Darpa Is Making Insects That Can Deliver Bioweapons, Scie... by killjoywashere on Saturday October 06, 2018 @08:17AM (#18154753)

If a bacteria gains antibiotic resistance, we declare the bug stronger and ourselves vulnerable. If we make wheat resistant to an herbicide, we declare it weaker and ourselves vulnerable.

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