Examples of genetic modification

• There is very little information available yet about the efficiency of genetic modification in various types of cells.

• Nor has the potential use of genetic modification to create better animal models for human disease.

• For example, suppose that we inadvertently expose the human species to serious threats by reducing the diversity of the human genotype through genetic modification.

• We do that in this country with health and safety, we do that with genetic modification, and we do it for human fertilization and embryology.

• With genetic modification, we are not moving around hundreds of genes, we are only changing one gene and keeping everything else constant.

• The case of biotechnology has implications for our understanding of public policy generally and for the transatlantic conflict over genetic modification in particular.

• Let us begin at the lowest imaginable level of evolution: the genetic modification of organisms through random variation and natural selection.

• Consequently, the agency advocated a process-based approach that would capture all substances produced through genetic modification.