Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrine disruptors

Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by Nasrudith on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @11:53AM (#26239550)

Do you know how they discovered methods of genetic modification? Retroviruses in nature. Look at HPV for one as a cause for cancer and the number of viruses embedded in human DNA. Evolution includes all of those.

Of course /nothing/ meets the goal posts of "arbitrary" including state of the art genetic modification.

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Re:Falling sperm counts, declining egg quality, and endocrin... by Retric on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @03:04PM (#26242175)

We have moved past simply copying and pasting DNA and can now add arbitrary genetic sequences to any organism. Natural rice retroviruses are unlikely to carry jellyfish DNA let alone something designed from scratch.

As I said it’s probably not that meaningful of a difference, but malicious actors have serious tools to work with here not just random changes.

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