Re:Unsealed Documents Raise Questions on Monsanto Weed Killer
by ethbro on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:55PM
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> As for gene editing, it's a question of polluting the gene pool of a life system.
You mean like life had been doing since its inception?
You can gripe about the speed and power with which we're performing genetic modification (and things like gene drives are powerful), but I can't agree with the "It's something that's never been done before!" angle.
We're just doing so intelligently. With incomplete knowledge, but a hell of a lot more intelligently than random mutation.
You mean like life had been doing since its inception?
You can gripe about the speed and power with which we're performing genetic modification (and things like gene drives are powerful), but I can't agree with the "It's something that's never been done before!" angle.
We're just doing so intelligently. With incomplete knowledge, but a hell of a lot more intelligently than random mutation.