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Esfandiar Mazda asked:
À la Frank Herbert’s White Plague in which women are genetic targets, and a certain tome with black folk targeted. CRISPR makes such scenarios seem plausible. We can buy genetically manipulated plants that glow-in-the-dark from online kitchen sink biologists/gene splicers. How many generations of mosquitoes need to be bred before someone finds or creates one that can carry a pandemic-causing virus?