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To clarify with respect to the linked article and technique, this is about a genetically modified individual passing on the modification to their children. Ther

To clarify with respect to the linked article and technique, this is about a genetically modified individual passing on the modification to their children. There's no 'chain reaction' through existing fully grown cells and they can't propagate a modification through your cells (yet, at least!).

thyrsus 12y ago
That was not at all clear from the article. So the (fruit fly) intervention happens one cell at a time? And only if by luck it's a gamete that is affected?
Terr_ 12y ago
True, but if you have archives going further back than the change, you can at least figure out what it displaced.