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New Advance Confines GMOs To the Lab Instead of Living In the Wild
BarbaraHudson (3785311) writes In Jurassic Park, scientists tweak dinosaur DNA so that the dinosaurs were lysine-deficient in order to keep them from spreading in the wild. Scientists have taken this one step further as a way to keep genetically modified E. coli from surviving outside the lab.
In modifying the bacteria's DNA to thwart escape, two teams altered the genetic code to require amino acids not found in nature. One team modified the genes that coded for proteins crucial to cell functions so that that produced proteins required the presence of the synthetic amino acid in the protein itself. The other team focused on 22 genes deemed essential to a bacterial cell's functions and tied the genes' expression to the presence of synthetic amino acids.
For the bacteria to survive, these synthetic amino acids had to be present in the medium on which the bacteria fed. In both cases, the number of escapees was so small as to be undetectable."
Heresy!! How dare you suggest the people who make GMOs haven't solved all these problems?
In the absence of evidence this is risky, we have to conclude this is safe. Because that's how we've been doing it all along.
Why do you hate progress so much?
I, for one, welcome our new mutated GMO e. coli overlords.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
A mutation in the DNA undoes the genetic engineering and we've got a new strain of e. coli in the wild.
No, that could never happen. Just like those Monsanto strains that can't pollinate other crops.
As Jurassic Park taught us, we're perfectly safe as long as they didn't splice in any frog DNA.
He didn't say the statistics favored no evolution. You have the reading comprehension of a blind squirrel.
"Those who cannot remember history are doomed to repeat it, or so they say."
That's why they call it RE-SEARCH.