{"id":70849,"date":"2017-07-14T23:53:22","date_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/this-is-how-gene-editing-will-change-the-food-you-eat"},"modified":"2017-07-14T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-07-15T06:53:22","slug":"this-is-how-gene-editing-will-change-the-food-you-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/this-is-how-gene-editing-will-change-the-food-you-eat","title":{"rendered":"This Is How Gene-Editing Will Change The Food You Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For example, in 1994 Calgene won approval to sell the Flavr Savr tomato. To make a Flavr Savr, scientists genetically modified a garden variety tomato with aminoglycoside 3-phosphotransferase II, a compound that kept the fruit from rotting.<\/p>\n

The tinkering sabotaged the process that makes tomatoes turn squishy. But the less-squishy tomatoes never did catch on with a skeptical public. The company was later sold to Monsanto.<\/p>\n

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It changed everything.<\/p>\n

With CRISPR, scientists can literally edit organisms, removing the bits that lead to unfavorable outcomes.<\/p>\n

Ethicists worry<\/a> about a rush toward designer babies. And there have been some disturbing developments<\/a> on that end in China. However, the real opportunity in the near term has always been agriculture.<\/p>\n

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For example, in 1994 Calgene won approval to sell the Flavr Savr tomato. To make a Flavr Savr, scientists genetically modified a garden variety tomato with aminoglycoside 3-phosphotransferase II, a compound that kept the fruit from rotting. The tinkering sabotaged the process that makes tomatoes turn squishy. But the less-squishy tomatoes never did catch on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}