Modification
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117 examples of Modification in a sentence
We'll call them biological
modification
tools.
It turned into behavior modification, just as Norbert Wiener had worried it might.
I call them behavior
modification
empires.
Now the customers of these behavior
modification
empires are on a very fast loop.
Of the big tech companies, it's really only two that depend on behavior
modification
and spying as their business plan.
While this was all going on, I was in the field of weather modification, although getting a Ph.D. in aeronautics.
The weather
modification
subject was getting started, and as a graduate student, I could go around to the various talks that were being given, on a hitchhiker ride to the East Coast, and so on.
And as a result, I got the absolutely unique background in that field, and started a company, which did more research in weather
modification
than anybody, and there are a lot of things that I just can't go into.
To explain what microRNAs are and their important role in cancer, I need to start with proteins, because when cancer is present in our body, protein
modification
is observed in all cancerous cells.
It is also a platform that we can do further genetic
modification
on to solve the immunology problem.
In recent years, millions of people around the world have come to believe that there's something sinister about genetic
modification.
Now, genetic
modification
is not new; virtually everything we eat has been genetically modified in some manner.
Now, many people don't mind genetic
modification
when it comes to moving rice genes around, rice genes in rice plants, or even when it comes to mixing species together through grafting or random mutagenesis.
But golden rice is virulently opposed by activists who are against genetic
modification.
After 20 years of careful study and rigorous peer review by thousands of independent scientists, every major scientific organization in the world has concluded that the crops currently on the market are safe to eat and that the process of genetic engineering is no more risky than older methods of genetic
modification.
And the answer to that question is: depends on your definition of genetic
modification.
And these enhancements were introduced using a new genetic
modification
technology that goes by the funny name CRISPR, you know, like something's crisp, this is CRISPR.
And the UK traditionally has been the strictest country when it comes to human genetic
modification.
But still I think in combination these events are pushing us further towards an acceptance of human genetic
modification.
So if we forget about enhancing people and we just try to make them healthier using genetic modification, this technology is so new and so powerful, that by accident we could make them sicker.
I also think it's not that unlikely that governments might start taking an interest in genetic
modification.
So it's not beyond the realm of possible that genetic
modification
could be something that governments push.
So again, today it's Halloween and when we talk about genetic modification, there's one Halloween-associated character that is talked about or invoked more than anything else, and that is Frankenstein.
But if you think about it, in four decades, five million babies being born from a new technology is pretty remarkable, and the same kind of thing could happen with human genetic
modification
and designer babies.
What is the right path forward with human genetic
modification?
And I think part of the problem that we have is that all of this trend, this revolution in genetic
modification
applying to humans, the public hasn't known about it.
And I think the way we talk about physics needs a little
modification.
Targeted drugs, genetic modification, artificial intelligence, perhaps even implants into our brains, may change human beings themselves.
It's worth recalling that there are a lot of other
modification
technologies and enhancement technologies that we use.
Now that you know, now that science is telling us that you are in charge, that it's under your control, that your happiness, your well-being, your abilities, your capacities, are capable of continuous modification, continuous improvement, and you're the responsible agent and party.
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