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But if we think about this now and we think about it in the human context on a day like Halloween, if parents can in essence costume their children genetically, are we going to be talking about a Frankenstein 2.0 kind of situation?
So depending on the decisions we make in the next few months, the next year or so, if designer baby number one is born, within a few decades, there could well be millions of
genetically
modified humans.
And there's a difference there too, because if we, you in the audience, or I, if we decide to have a designer baby, then their children will also be
genetically
modified, and so on, because it's heritable.
We should not allow creating
genetically
modified people, because it's just too dangerous and too unpredictable.
A little British company called Oxitec
genetically
modified that mosquito so that when it mates with a wild female, its eggs don't develop to adulthood.
So why aren't we using this remarkable biological control in the US? That's because it's a GMO: a
genetically
modified organism.
So now I have to tell you the short form of the long, torturous story of GM regulation in the US In the US, there are three agencies that regulate
genetically
modified organisms: the FDA, the Food and Drug Administration, the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the USDA, US Department of Agriculture.
Took these folks two years to decide that it would be the FDA that would regulate the
genetically
modified mosquito.
When the local residents heard that there would be
genetically
modified mosquitoes tested in their community some of them began to organize protests.
While
genetically
similar, there are small differences in these different cancers that make them differently prone to different drugs.
Here are some of them:
genetically
modified food, animal research, human evolution.
But close analysis of the genomes and coat patterns of modern cats tells us that unlike dogs, which have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are
genetically
very similar to ancient cats.
Well, that's really cool, but what Einstein's really hoping is that maybe he'll
genetically
engineer a five-pound peanut.
30 percent of schizophrenic people are left-handed, and schizophrenia has a very funny genetics, which means 60 percent of the people are
genetically
left-handed, but only half of it showed.
Now, some people who think they're right-handed are
genetically
left-handed.
The
genetically
controlled studies have some sobering results.
These polyps are continually budding and branching into
genetically
identical neighbors.
The bacteria in my research are not
genetically
modified frankenbugs.
We are all 99.9%
genetically
equal.
By the way, just so you know: you get stressed out about
genetically
modified organisms; there is not one single vine in this valley or anywhere that is not
genetically
modified.
Potatoes of the same variety are clones and thus
genetically
identical.
Ireland's potatoes were
genetically
identical.
Genetically
engineered food crops, in my view, as a biologist, have no reason to be controversial.
Despite their best efforts,
genetically
engineered crops are the most rapidly successful agricultural innovation in history.
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics met on this issue twice in great detail and said it is a moral imperative to make
genetically
engineered crops readily available.
It turned out, though, that not following the traditional practice of marrying within the Jewish community ultimately worked in my favor genetically, reducing the odds of me having a baby with Tay-Sachs.
The capacity to create, as this mouse has been
genetically
modified, something which goes three times faster, lasts for three times longer, we could produce, as this mouse can, to the age of our equivalent of 80 years, using about the same amount of food.
When someone announces that the nature-nurture debate has been settled because there's evidence that a given percentage of our political opinions are
genetically
inherited, but they don't explain how genes cause opinions, they've settled nothing.
There is also modeling work that has demonstrated that even if you were to release just a small number of these
genetically
modified mosquitoes, that you can actually achieve elimination very, very quickly.
That's what I really like about it, the fact that I haven't got to go and buy it, and it hasn't been
genetically
modified at all.
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