svpk a day ago

Screwworms have actually broken through the Darrien Gap and hopes of recontaining them are slim.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/screwwor...

  • mullingitover a day ago

    I'd say the USDA will handle this, but there has never been less competent leadership at the top so we're probably toast unless someone is brave enough to let rip with a gene drive attack (which I would personally love to see, biotech reactionaries be damned).

trod1234 a day ago

This is by far the safer way to do these things. You never know what's going to happen when you Geneer a completely new organism and then release it into the wild.