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Not gonna happen. Releasing these "into the wild" is like releasing glow in the dark rabbits that only eat arugula. They'll die before they make it out of the d
by tstactplsignore 10y ago
Not gonna happen. Releasing these "into the wild" is like releasing glow in the dark rabbits that only eat arugula. They'll die before they make it out of the drain, let alone before they make it to any natural microbial ecosystem where they were be viciously torn apart by organisms finely tuned to that environment.
- andorov 10y agoThey only need to survive long enough to swap genes with existing bacteria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer