Posted on 03/06/2025 7:01:45 PM PST by HannagansBride
It was late in 1972 — a year in which the science of genetic engineering really began to sizzle — that two California researchers announced the unusually tidy transfer of genetic information from one bacterium to another with help from a specialized enzyme. It was a scientifically heralded result, but behind the hoopla was just one small catch. The information transferred enabled a common human disease bacterium, E. coli, to resist not just one antibiotic, but two.
“Alarm bells should have rung,” writes Matthew Cobb, in his deeply researched and often deeply troubling history of gene science. And that nothing did ring — that scientific success trumped the obvious risks of the work — becomes the focus of his book’s primary inquiry: whether a research community capable of altering life is also capable of putting ethical decisions first.
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Don’t know what that means but I woul never trust the NY Slime to tell the truth on it.
Don’t know what that means but I woul never trust the NY Slime to tell the truth on it.
Don’t know what that means but I woul never trust the NY Slime to tell the truth on it.
The work was done in E. coli K12 which is not a disease causing strain. The author doesn’t know what he’s talking about. Genetic manipulation in bacteria has been going on for over 50 years without a problem. Virologists doing stupid virology tricks is another story.
Transduction, transfection, and transformation were discovered in bacteria long before we started mimicking it. Same with CRISPR. Our problem is that we have no absolute set of moral guidelines. So anyone who can master those techniques may use it to destroy those they disagree with.
Nice thoughts for the weekend. Pray, baby, pray.
The Asillomar Conference on Recombinant DNA technology in 1975 established guidelines limiting what could be done but were not mandatory.
You can say that again!
This is a nothingburger compared to what they did with Covid - where was the NYSlimes on that?
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