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by kickout 9y ago
Its a joint website amongst all the multinational players in the GMO space (Bayer, Dupont, Syngenta, Monsanto, BASF, etc.). It may look like a biased source, its not too bad. Most of the opinions/articles are backed by peer reviewed re
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by kickout 9y ago
Uh, are we just making stuff up now? Most accepted scientific consensus is GMOs are safe...
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by kickout 9y ago
Correct. At the scale of the world and feeding it, there will be drawbacks to whatever solutions. I agree there needs to be oversight and proper regulations. But GMOs, to me, unfairly suffer compared to every other technology. Nobody was
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by kickout 9y ago
Just for the non-GMO/non-multinational crowd out there... there exists many corn/soy varieties which do not have transgenes in them and have reasonable yield performance... And yet, the market shrugs. These GMOs are providing valu
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by kickout 9y ago
Although i disagree with your undertone (GMOs are unsafe), i think you bring up valid points--Wide range in what is being modified, and how, makes all the difference in the world
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by kickout 9y ago
Good post/paper in general. Predicting traits in humans has been more challenging than most geneticist want to admit. The good news is that most high heritable traits will become "solved" as we enter a new order of magnitude
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by kickout 9y ago
You got a link what company offers selective in vitro fertilization (for cosmetic traits, not something like down syndrome)
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by kickout 9y ago
No, not even close. Comically uninformed take right here
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by kickout 9y ago
No code in paper, correct. Very easy to implement via R or python. One of the authors (Gustavo de los Campos) has alot of code that could probably be coped/pasted with little editing from his website. Algorithm is actually painfully si
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by kickout 9y ago
(redacted). But still disagree this is not what the underlying study is concluding
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