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Like most technology, it's not the thing itself, but what we do with it. Making sterile seeds that destabilize food production for the sake of ensuring yearly profits? Booooo. Making drought-resistant crops? Yay!

A powerful technology that should be used carefully and responsibly. But not nearly as dangerous as it’s opponents imagine.

I want Ozzy's liver. That dude is a bona fide mutant from the genome sequence they did in 2010.

Because selective breading is technically a form of genetic engineering/modification. I think it's fine and we do it for thousands of years.

New methods make it easier, faster and gives more options what to do (modified proteins...).

Like many things, it could be incredible but in our modern society I fear it would be abused and misused due to greed and poor regulation

Very cool in theory, hard to do without stumbling into Eugenics 😬

People will misuse this for personal gain at the expense of others and the planet. Consequences will be dramatic.

I think in vivo technologies (like CRISPR) will be the biggest game changer in medicine since antibiotics. The danger is that without robust socialised medical institutions these become cures that only the rich can afford.

Give me new cool superpowers, like respiration of water AND air.

Have at. Ethical limitations apply as it’s a fairly new technology.