[code_beers]

Who’s to say it’s a “glitch” and not a feature? What if this “glitch” provides greater resilience to climate change, and we edit out the very thing we need to keep eating despite our past mistakes? I would like to see a greater understanding of biology before stuff like this makes it out of the laboratory. Our species is a child playing with a box of matches.

[foxyv]

My scary thought is if this dramatically increases the availability of food and the population rises. Then it fails later because it turns out that adaptation was to prevent some weird virus from destroying the plants...