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Examples of genetic modification

genetic modification
There is very little information available yet about the efficiency of geneticmodification in various types of cells.
Nor has the potential use of geneticmodification to create better animal models for human disease.
For example, suppose that we inadvertently expose the human species to serious threats by reducing the diversity of the human genotype through geneticmodification.
We do that in this country with health and safety, we do that with geneticmodification, and we do it for human fertilization and embryology.
With geneticmodification, we are not moving around hundreds of genes, we are only changing one gene and keeping everything else constant.
The case of biotechnology has implications for our understanding of public policy generally and for the transatlantic conflict over geneticmodification in particular.
Let us begin at the lowest imaginable level of evolution: the geneticmodification of organisms through random variation and natural selection.
Consequently, the agency advocated a process-based approach that would capture all substances produced through geneticmodification.
As concern about the environmental risks of geneticmodification waned, congressional attention turned elsewhere.
Typical examples relate to nuclear power generation, railway travel, or the geneticmodification of organisms.
This unambiguously establishes that the nuclei of cultured rat cells can support development of enucleated rat eggs even following geneticmodification.
Some of these public concerns about geneticmodification of animals may be based on lack of information.
Human beings can no longer be thought of as fundamentally equal because geneticmodification will introduce permanent differences that cannot be transcended by cultural interventions.
Dairy goats are a useful system for producing human therapeutics in their milk by geneticmodification.
Geneticmodification of the vaccine strain aims at reducing the risk of spread or persistence in the environment while at the same time inducing an adaptive immune response.
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