Source: FRESH FRUIT PORTAL, 7/27/18


U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has criticized the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ) recent ruling that the relatively new technique of genome editing counts as genetic engineering. Gene editing, a relatively new method involving the precise replacement of one DNA sequence with another, has until now been a grey area.  Traditional genetic engineering involves the less precise insertion of foreign DNA into an organism.

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