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viciousvoxeltoday at 9:19 AM1 replyview on HN

Once a desirable sequence modification is identified through artificial means, what is often done in practice is to simply expose samples of the organism to UV until the desired sequence appears "naturally." The output of this process is not typically considered GMO, at least for regulatory purposes.


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ACCount37today at 10:45 AM

Which you can do for knockouts, but not for the "splice in a new gene 400BP long".