Scientists use gene-editing to create 'superflies'

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Genetically-engineered 'superflies' which eat poisonous plants make predators throw them up if they're eaten

Fruit flies have been mutated so they can stomach the once-poisonous milkweed. Eating milkweed also makes them toxic to predators, increasing survival chance.

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Now we have flies that cannot be controlled by natural predators. Remember the grey squirrel, signal crayfish. All introduced.

I wonder what else can happen if they have no predators?

africaupdates And create new disease. Send them to Africa for trials & boom a new Ebola is born.

Just plain stoopid!

Oh man.... This... This will not end well for us

Unwise

And there'll be no unintended consequences either!

Gross. 🤢🤢🤢

Dr. Evil’s tampering of God’s creation from the transhumanist Frankenstein laboratories.

Madness.

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