• limer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    It’s only a matter of time, decades perhaps, until someone/group makes a virus to reduce human births using similar approaches .

    Their motives might be good or bad or both, but it’s going to happen

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    “It’s really important to note that the gene isn’t incorporated into the DNA of the cat. It’s not incorporated into the genome. So the gene isn’t passed on to offspring. It basically floats in the nucleus of the muscle cell and the normal machinery of the nucleus makes the protein that we need at very high levels,” Swanson said.