Read on Twitter
Gene scissors found to cause chaos in genome of tomatoes. And as the effects can be easily overlooked without exact genomic analyses, it's not unlikely that they also occurred in plants obtained from gene editing that were already deregulated in the US testbiotech.org/en/news/crispr… 
Chromothripsis-like effects occurred after the application of #CRISPR/Cas. In chromothripsis often several hundred genetic changes occur simultaneously in a 'catastrophic' event. Many sections of the genetic material can be swapped, twisted, recombined or even lost if this occurs
Molecular geneticist Dr Michael Antoniou: "Yet again we see a phenomenon already observed in a human cell context—major DNA damage from gene editing—now appearing in plants. Due to the inadequate analysis generally done on gene-edited plants, #GMO developers will often miss this"
Dr Antoniou: "So we will end up with marketed products with major genetic rearrangements affecting the function of many genes, even disturbing the balanced expression of multiple gene families, with unknown downstream consequences to the biochemical composition of the plant."
Dr Antoniou: "Those consequences [from major genetic rearrangements in gene-edited plants] could include the production of new toxins and allergens. Yet gene editing is claimed to be more precise than natural breeding. Clearly this is not the case." gmwatch.org/en/106-news/la…
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
