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by shmooper 1183 days ago
The article discusses Candida which is a specific genus of yeast includes species that live with us humans, and can sometimes cause disease, mainly in immunocompromised individuals. Most of the yeast being engineered with CRISPER is non-pathogenic [1] and is less likely to mutate to this sort of thing. The mutation the article discusses is more like how bacterias evolve with anti-bacterial drug use. Much like bacterias, pathogenic fungi experience evolutionary pressure from their environment and the drugs we use to control them.

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31280424/