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Re:Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil by inciampati on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:01PM (#20971647)
Life finds a way, and more so when populations are huge and genomes are diverse. Not exactly a surprising result.

Maybe with another ten or twenty years of experience and technique in genome sequencing and interpretation we will be able to engineer a reliable gene drive.

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Re:Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil by shiyoon on Saturday September 14, 2019 @12:34PM (#20971879)
the risk in making a mistake doing these trial runs could be huge though......they still don't know the impact this will have on the local ecosystem there across generations....Gene driving is a pandoras box that has the potential to decimate entire ecosystems by accident with irreversible consequences.

I keep thinking this is how the zombie apocalypse will happen lol

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Re:Genetically modified mosquitoes breed in Brazil by WalterBright on Saturday September 14, 2019 @04:34PM (#20973589)
> I keep thinking this is how the zombie apocalypse will happen lol

Since zombies violate the laws of physics, there's no need to worry about that.

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