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Weird analogy imho. It's possible to stop people from making human-chihuahua baby hybrids because it's impossible to make human-chihuahua baby hybrids. Limiting ourselves to the realm of the technically feasible, there isn't really anything in place to prevent someone from trying to make glowing E. coli in their garage - heck, there are kits available. Still, the fact that it's expensive to set up, the success rates are often low, and the payoff isn't really that big is enough to keep it from becoming a problem. Easier to set up a python environment and buy a gaming PC than it is to maintain bacterial cultures.