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		nashashmi on April 6, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scientists Seek Ban on Method of Editing the Human... Why is arbitrarily changing human genome something that biologist worry about, but changing the genome of other creatures and foods that are later consumed is not something that biologists worry about?

Zikes on April 6, 2015 [–]

I assume you're referring to GMOs, and yes that is something biologists "worry about" very frequently.

That's why it works.

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