Welcome, friends, James Corbett here, CorbettReport.com.

Today is the 23rd of October 2019 here across the dateline in Japan, but today we're talking to a guest who is a previous corporate report guest that I hope you may be familiar with.

That's Dr. Jonathan Latham of Independent Science News.org.

And if you are not familiar, you can go back in the corporate report interview archives back to interview 1096 from 2015, where we talked to Dr. Latham about GMO concerns and a article that he had

written at that time, growing doubt a scientist's experience of GMOs. Today, we're going to be

talking about a, well, a related but slightly different subject, gene editing.

And we're going to talk about a new report that he's just put out at independent science news.org,

which will, of course, be linked up in the show notes.

Dr. Jonathan Latham, thank you again for taking the time.

My pleasure, James.

Let's get into your new report.

Specifically, we're talking about gene editing unintentionally

adds bovine DNA, goat DNA, and bacterial DNA, mouse researchers find, which is a very

interesting article, but one that, well, does get technical, as a lot of your articles do. So for the

non-technical, non-specialist audience out there,

why don't we just start with the basic question,

what is gene editing?

So, well, gene editing is a little bit of a misnomer.

What it really is, is targeting cuts in DNA

to specific locations in the genome, and basically have the cell repairs those cuts and

researchers select from cells that have repairs that they like the look of. So if you're a researcher, you'll take a whole, you know, a set of tissue cultures or you'll take cells that are going to

turn into a new organism and you will basically select the one that you like the look of. And so,

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