313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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Recombinant Dna and Genetic Engineering
Scientists keep on using new terms uh... partly deliberately to avoid the bad connotations of the previous definition. The key thing that we now do would be to use this kind of editing technique to use enzymes to target a particular sequence of dna and then alter it in a particular way. This can produce rather unpleasant consequences so you want to be sure it's clearly worked in your embryo which i don't think has happened yet.
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