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Re:Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosqu... by BurningFrog on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @11:23AM (#31098252)
The genuinely frightening possibility is diseases engineered to infect/kill only people of a certain race or family.
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Re:Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosqu... by toomuchtodo on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @02:27PM (#31101009)
This has been a known vulnerability for some time.

https://youtu.be/HKQDSgBHPfY

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349202

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Re:Results from first US trial of genetically modified mosqu... by kickout on Wednesday April 20, 2022 @12:59PM (#31099858)
Yes, genome engineering is a tool that can be used for evil, no different than most other tools. I am confident your worry would be easily detected and squashed if some lab were attempting such a dreadful thing.
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