More #CRISPR cock ups with animals wired.com/story/a-crispr… "A close look at his DNA would expose just how unpredictable Crispr gene editing can be.." But no worries, they're already pushing for deregulation, i.e. zero safety checks! #agribill #gmo
#Crispr had made the cuts it was supposed to. Then it made some more.. Other experiments aimed at bringing designer farm animals to market, have turned up strange side effects, including enlarged tongues in rabbits, pigs w/ extra vertebrae and premature deaths of cattle #agribill
Lisa Moses, an animal bioethicist at Harvard Medical School, told the Wall Street Journal: “It’s really hubris of us to assume that we know what we’re doing and that we can predict what kinds of bad things can happen.” wsj.com/articles/defor… #CRISPR #agribill
And bad things don't just happen with animals: #CRISPR-edited rice shows wide range of unintended mutations gmwatch.org/en/news/latest… #agribill #gmo
Molecular geneticist Michael Antoniou: "It's critical that regulators take note of the similarity of findings in animal, human & plant systems and keep gene-edited products regulated & labelled, using current EU #GMO laws as a minimum standard" gmwatch.org/en/news/latest… #agribill
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