All our food stuffs, canned goods, house water supplies, natural gas supplies, medicines are going to be vulnerable to a bacteria that eats Poly-ethylene in a few days when engineers designed packaging to use a material expected to last decades. What could possibly go wrong #GMOhttps://twitter.com/ScienceAlert/status/986089297857179648 …
I think the microbe that inspired the enzyme was naturally occuring so still a gmo?
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The lab created version of PETase radically outperforms the natural version. Imagine the consequences if it's eury-organism in wild and with fitness and spreads to feast on natural gas pipelines.
#BlackSwan type event. Huge fan of outliers, here. -
No doubt there are risks. There is also a chance of enormous upside, no? Fire is a destructive force...but also something we've managed to harness well for good.
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