The really interesting bit of this article to me is the democritisation of DNA manipulation.
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The really interesting bit of this article to me is the democritisation of DNA manipulation.
No, I would not. I will take the natural order of things, myself.
But it isn’t. These dog breeds have genetic issues from years of selective breeding. The proposal is to fix them and return the dogs to how they would have been had they not been so inbred.