313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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I Think It's a Combination of Things Uh...
In the seventies people were very scared about what would happen if we put a human gene into a bacteria and it started producing whatever protein or whatever. It turned out nobody had any suspicion of this but in nineteen seventy seven it was discovered that there's a quality of difference between the genes in a human or in any multicellular organism with those in a microbe. The key thing is that the fears which led to very stringent by security protocols in terms of you know how you can under what conditions you can do the experiment some experiments where you should do them at all have been pretty good so far.
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