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The science and ethics of rewriting our DNA | Jennifer Doudna

The TED Interview

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Genetically Modified Foods Are a Bad Thing

Everything we eat is, i would claim, is a gamo in the sense that humans have been breeding crops for millennia. Currently, plant breeders introduce random mutations into dana random randomly. And then they select for those crops that have desired traits. That's one of the reasons why we have tomatoes that last a long time on the grocery shelf but don't taste very good.

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