/sci/ - Science & Math

What keeps some unethical lab somewhere (say, North Korea, China, Iran, whatever) from just breeding resistant strains of micro-organisms?

Say just making ultra antibiotic resistant bacteria on purpose? From the little I understand about the topic this is actually pretty easy to do with not a lot of material, right?

What if they wanted to boost some virus by reproducing it a lot and looking for specific mutations. Say, airborne HIV that can survive and be transmitted through saliva.

Is this already happening? It seems much less complex than current CRISPR shit and other such technologies.