Episode 871
Gene-Editing: Food of the Future?
As the UK looks to relax the growth and sale of gene-edited crops, how could this impact the food we eat?
The Naked Scientists Podcast · The Naked Scientists
July 12, 202259m 32s
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Show Notes
Could the potential food of the future be on its way to our supermarket shelves? Parliament is currently reviewing rules which would allow gene-edited food to be grown and sold in the UK, moving away from the more stringent rules it had adopted under EU regulations. The phrase 'genetically-modified' gained a bad repuation towards the end of the 20th century, with concerns around the safety of inserting foreign DNA into organisms, the mechanisms for doing so and the motivations behind its use. With the development of targeted gene-editing technologies, such as CRISPR-Cas9, modifying genetic... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists
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