Ronald Bailey On the Awesome Potential of Genetic Engineering

Wouldn’t it
be great if scientists could genetically engineer mosquitoes to be
immune to the malaria parasite, thus protecting people from that
disease? How about restoring the effectiveness of a pesticide by
eliminating resistance genes in weeds and insect pests? Or altering
genomes to eradicate a pesky invasive species?

These are exactly the sorts of things that a new
biotechnological tool could do, writes Ron Bailey, and that’s got
some people worried.

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