Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people

Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people by graypegg on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:12PM (#34719663)

… non-GMO? How do you manage that? Is a culture considered non-GMO as long as you’re just pipetting colonies around and hoping for the them to be stressed the right way to evolve something useful?

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Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people by kurthr on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:32PM (#34719774)

Well, otherwise just about every plant and animal we use in agriculture would be GMO for the last 1000 years.

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Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people by ISL on Thursday February 09, 2023 @12:25AM (#34720103)

Yep.

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Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people by bbojan on Thursday February 09, 2023 @02:52AM (#34720960)

Any organism we bred is genetically modified by definition. That's why "transgenic" is a much more accurate term that we should be using.

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Re:Probiotic blocks staph bacteria from colonizing people by menacingly on Thursday February 09, 2023 @04:53AM (#34721761)

I think this is a failure to recognize the distinction between having modified genetics, and having been genetically modified.

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