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To: Ciaphas Cain

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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To: ifinnegan
Actually, nobody knows for sure.

CRISPR kits are cheap. For a few hundred bucks you or anyone else can have CRISPR FedExed to you, custom-tailored for the genes you want to snip out and have replaced. There are even CRISPR sets not unlike the chemistry sets a lot of us played with as kids.

Gene hacking has been an underground art for some time now. CRISPR made it even more alluring. And then there is the ever-present possibility of it being used by more nefarious parties. Today its pressure-cooker bombs. Tomorrow it's potentially airborne rabies.

13 posted on 05/29/2017 10:57:48 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (I don't give a damn about your feelings. Try to impress me with your convictions.)
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