Still enthralled, if not wholly original, just last week the NY Times opinion section offered: “ Tweaking genes to save species “. Two value judgments in a seven word headline: “small” and “tweak”, neither supported by the content of the article. Nature magazine in July 2015 published “ Super-muscly pigs created by small genetic tweak “. That is, they are capable of creating precise, accurate and specific alterations to DNA.Įven the “serious” media is in on it. The hubris is alarming but the more subtle element of the propaganda campaign is the biggest and most dangerous improbability of them all: that CRISPR and related technologies are “genome editing” ( Fichtner et al., 2014 ). It is a combination of a guide RNA and a protein that can cut DNA.) (CRISPR is short for CRISPR/cas9, which is short for Clustered Regularly-Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/CRISPR associated protein 9 Jinek et al., 2012. Buckle Up “ “ We Have the Technology to Destroy All Zika Mosquitoes “ and “ CRISPR: gene editing is just the beginning”. “ Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. It concerns an emerging set of methods for altering the DNA of living organisms.
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