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CRISPR has become a tool unlike anything before in the realm of tailoring genes. We've been told that with CRISPR, anything would be possible. From cube-shaped tomatoes for efficient packaging, to super-intelligent babies.

How much of CRISPR-edited DNA is now out in the wild, without us having a clue what it will do?

1 posted on 05/29/2017 8:13:36 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
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I don’t understand how it’s adding mutations that they didn’t intend. I was under the impression that they could only modify the genes they targeted, no?


2 posted on 05/29/2017 8:18:09 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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3 posted on 05/29/2017 8:19:35 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Proud Keeper of the Sarah Palin and New First Lady Melania Ping Lists. Let me know if you want on.)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

Oops.


5 posted on 05/29/2017 8:45:53 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Man cannot play God—be careful, very careful. The same has been shown in fungal genetic manipulations.


7 posted on 05/29/2017 9:26:44 PM PDT by Fungi (No tagline. Suggestions invited.)
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As if mother nature hasn’t proved that already


8 posted on 05/29/2017 9:33:37 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)
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Gene-Editing Can Cause Hundreds of Unexpected Mutations

See, that's the deal. Unintended cosequences. Go messin' with the gene pool and bad things gonna rise.


9 posted on 05/29/2017 9:43:53 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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This research should be allowed to progress, but under very strict conditions. Biotech can’t be allowed to run rampant without trampling over our Christian heritage. Bush, for all his faults, was right in fighting fetal stem cell research and it forced private industry to do adult stem cell research.

Funny that the libtards start screaming “free enterprise” when it comes to this kind of research because:
A. They want government support for their $70,000/yr universities (you’d think with all the scholarships they give to illegals, they’d be able to fund some labs)
B. They want to trample Judeo-Christian values

Liberals will pay in the afterlife.


11 posted on 05/29/2017 10:02:31 PM PDT by BostonNeocon
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It’s always a bunch of hype. Pushed by companies selling it for research.

“How much of CRISPR-edited DNA is now out in the wild”

None.


12 posted on 05/29/2017 10:44:35 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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