New gene technology bill is concerning

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And on the other hand gene tailored cancer treatments are saving lives, albeit at enormous cost. It is a conundrum, for sure.

Medical applications are often rolled out in support of the technology but that is a very different case to release of GE organisms into the wider environment. Medical use is laboratory contained and isn't self replicating, outside of the host individual, so doesn't pose the same threat to our environment that GE plants and animals do. Using medical GE as an excuse to release organisms into the 'wild' is nothing more than a smoke screen by the biotech community.

It is only recently science has shown us that pregnant women exchange dna with the child they carry, and in the process change their own dna. Having come to understand through that parenting process that those babies we carry are actually not mini me's but someone entirely new, someone we might not have anticipated creating, the idea of sharing their dna has implications I, and I think most of us have never had to consider.

We alter the world simply by existing. I think we definitely need guard rails, but we may have to accept that we cannot save our world from ourselves.

Fortunately though, I do believe it has the power to recover, and become something new, once we have passed away.