Under federal rules, genetically engineered animals are regulated as animal drugs, giving jurisdiction to the veterinary medicine division of the F.D.A. This was done to regulate genetic engineering using existing rules and agencies.
Critics have said that it does not make sense to regulate animals as drugs and that the F.D.A. is not the best agency to evaluate ecological effects. The F.D.A. said it was assisted in its review by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Test of Zika-Fighting Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Gets Tentative F.D.A. Approval - The New York Times
Critics have said that it does not make sense to regulate animals as drugs and that the F.D.A. is not the best agency to evaluate ecological effects. The F.D.A. said it was assisted in its review by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Test of Zika-Fighting Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Gets Tentative F.D.A. Approval - The New York Times
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They are also unlikely to cause harm to people because the male mosquitoes being released do not bite, they say. While small numbers of genetically engineered females, which could bite, might be released, the extra proteins they contain from the genetic engineering do not appear either toxic or allergenic.
Test of Zika-Fighting Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Gets Tentative F.D.A. Approval - The New York Times
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Both the company and F.D.A. documents say the genetically engineered mosquitoes are unlikely to escape and establish themselves in the wild, particularly because they are programmed to die.
Test of Zika-Fighting Genetically Altered Mosquitoes Gets Tentative F.D.A. Approval - The New York Times
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...s paint a nuanced picture of the way courts think about an increasingly important technology. Themes and questions emerge that illuminate the path of robotics law and test its central claims to date. The article concludes that jurists on the whole possess poor, increasingly outdated views about robots and hence will not be well positioned to address the novel challenges they continue to pose.
Robots in American Law by Ryan Calo :: SSRN
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...d not be robots in court, for instance, or apply the law robotically. The robotic witness is not to be trusted. And people who commit crimes under the robotic control of another might avoid sanction. Together these case studies paint a nuanced picture of the way courts think about an increasingly important technology. Themes and questions emerge that illuminate the path of robotics law and test its central claims to date. The article concludes that jurists on the whole possess poor, increasingly outdated views abo...
Robots in American Law by Ryan Calo :: SSRN
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Robots in American Law by Ryan Calo :: SSRN
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This article closely examines a half century of case law involving robots—just in time for the technology itself to enter the mainstream. Most of the cases involving robots have never found their way into legal scholarship. And yet, taken collectively, these cases reveal much about the assumptions and limitations of our legal system. Robots blur the line between people and instrument, for instance, and faulty notions ab...
Robots in American Law by Ryan Calo :: SSRN
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... of satire than sanctification. Rick mopes and mutters through an elegantly appointed malaise, wandering the desert in an Armani jacket and driving aimlessly in his midnight-blue vintage convertible. In the room, the women come and go. It’s all very poetic and rarely boring, except maybe to Rick himself. But it’s hard to trust his anguish and hard not to suspect that what is being solicited is not your empathy but your envy.
Review: In ‘Knight of Cups,’ a Writer’s Flesh Is Willing but His Spirit Is Weak - The New York Times
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