Recent evidence confirms risks of horizontal gene transfer.

From: Synthesis/Regeneration | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Sexually reproducing organisms pass their DNA only "vertically, "from one generation to the next. But bacteria and viruses exchange bits of DNA "horizontally, "from one organism to another. What happens when art artificially introduced genes get transferred horizontally? Mae- Wan Ho of the Institute of Science in Society summarizes the evidence.

The oft-repeated refrain that "transgenic DNA is just like ordinary DNA" is false. Transgenic DNA is in many respects optimized for horizontal gene transfer. It is designed to cross species barriers and to jump into genomes, and it ...

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