Requests require committees. Committees require meetings. Meetings take time. The more red tape you put up, the harder it is for people to get to work on this.

Requests require committees. Committees require meetings. Meetings take time. The more red tape you put up, the harder it is for people to get to work on this. If someone has the ability to print out a working copy of ebola in 10/20/100 years, someone else will have the ability to print out working antibodies. I'd be less concerned about some potential future risk and more concerned with getting out of the way of people who are working on Ebola research right now. Plus, if some nut job wanted to print out some Ebola with a hypothetical bioprinter, they'd probably end up infecting themselves as well.