(September 15, 2017 at 9:36 pm)Fireball Wrote: GMO corn is planted next to fields of "regular" corn, and those modifications are gradually spreading through the rest of the genome from the pollen being free and easy on the wind. Think "killer bees", and you get the idea. There is no way that the modifications will be kept out of the rest of the gene pool. The modifications will eventually spread.
Comparing genetic hybridizing in plants to CRISPR in humans is sort of a non-starter. By only editing genes from a person who is already born, you remove all of the epigenetic issues that would transfer the changes to the person's offspring.
So you fix genetic issues like Huntington's Disease and certain cancers after a person is born, but not things like eye color and gende before an embryo is implanted.
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