If the author had said that crispr based gene drives are malware then I can see that metaphor working, but I don't think that was what was the case here. Also,

If the author had said that crispr based gene drives are malware then I can see that metaphor working, but I don't think that was what was the case here. Also, crispr for neuro diseases isn't just knockouts, there's work with single base change Cas forms and RNA targeting crispr, it's a broad range of tools