genetic modification
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“The sooner we snap out of our distaste for genetic modification, the better.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
“At Asilomar, we had identified the genetic modification of humans as the biggest coming issue,” Baltimore said.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025
Attempts to control it have seen crowds wading out into lakes, and genetic modification.
From BBC • Aug. 31, 2024
First, they introduce a genetic modification that causes neurons to produce a light-sensitive protein called opsin, the same type of protein that photoreceptors in the eye use to detect light.
From Science Daily • May 2, 2024
That fulfills part of our definition of plant domestication, as the genetic modification of an ancestral plant in ways that make it more useful to consumers.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
