subject: Real-World Geneticists are Altering Animal Genes to Fight Real Villains [print this page] Real-World Geneticists are Altering Animal Genes to Fight Real Villains
It will probably take seven to 10 years of tests before any of these ideas are tried in the wild. The first genetically modified animal to leave the lab will probably not be the one designed to control a pest. Instead, environmentalists fear, it might accidentally become one.
