-- Creatures
created by genetic engineering are used in laboratories, and their meat could soon appear on supermarket shelves.
Not exact matches
But why couldn't we consciously
create natural slaves who are content to be who they are — as most of the people are in the Brave New World (and the book
by that name doesn't even draw upon what might well be possible through
genetic engineering)?
Created by a Minnesota - based company called Recombinetics, the hornless cattle are the first of a new wave of farmed animals developed using techniques that, unlike conventional
genetic engineering, involve no «foreign» DNA (see «How to tweak a genome «-RRB-.
Jack Horner:»... If we want to see an animal like a velociraptor, we will be able to
create one
by genetic engineering.
«However, genome editing raises a regulatory issue
by creating indistinct boundaries in GMO regulations because the advanced
genetic engineering can, without introducing new
genetic material, make a gene modification which is similar to a naturally occurring mutation.»
A survey of rice, wheat, barley, fruit, and vegetable crops found that most mutants
created by advanced
genetic engineering techniques may be out of the scope of current genetically modified organism (GMO) regulations.
Because grafting has been widely used for millennia, it is highly likely that some of the plants we eat were
created by this kind of unintentional
genetic engineering by farmers, Maliga and Bock think.
People were very worried that for example, E. coli would get into people's systems and it would
create diabetic comas because it would be churning out insulin inside of our guts, and so on; and actually
genetic engineering was banned in Cambridge Massachusetts
by the local government because of these fears.
Fukuyama warns that eugenics and
genetic engineering threaten to undermine the principle of human equality
by creating a powerful new
genetic overclass.
The situation is not likely to get better any time soon, say a host of experts, in part because of the growing array of issues either underlaid
by science, like global warming, or
created by science, like
genetic engineering and cloning.
If you're enticed
by the opportunity to be responsible for new species, one suggests
genetic engineering is more timely, and less costly than inducing catastrophe to
create new niches or eliminate old denizens of current ones.