Biosecurity
Ever since health officials hit the panic button on Zika — the mosquito-borne virus that may be causing terrible birth defects in Latin America — we've seen story afterbreathless story about how we'll soon be able to use genetic engineering to crush the mosquito menace and halt this disease.
There's so much excitement around this possibility, in fact, that some media outlets have already moved on to debating whether we should use our newfound powers to squelch every last mosquito on the planet. See this great piece by Daniel Engber in Slate (he says kill 'em all) or this rejoinder by Melissa Cronin at Vice (she says maybe not).
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