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Wait. Is there no regulation around this? Any company or individual can cook up whatever specimen they want and simply release it into the environment en masse?

Am I missing something?




Somewhere down the line this will makes a mockery of customs agricultural inspections when you can just download the plan for a foreign organism and materialize it in your neighborhood.


They are working with Fresno County [0]

[0] http://www.mosquitobuzz.net/


Ah. Thanks.


Agreed, the article handwaves away the legal aspects which imo is more interesting than the actual mosquito engineering in this case.




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