[graypegg]

… non-GMO? How do you manage that? Is a culture considered non-GMO as long as you’re just pipetting colonies around and hoping for the them to be stressed the right way to evolve something useful?

[kurthr]

Well, otherwise just about every plant and animal we use in agriculture would be GMO for the last 1000 years.

[bbojan]

Any organism we bred is genetically modified by definition. That's why "transgenic" is a much more accurate term that we should be using.

[menacingly]

I think this is a failure to recognize the distinction between having modified genetics, and having been genetically modified.

[ISL]

Yep.