Vegetables modified with CRISPR-Cas9 have been cultivated, harvested and cooked for the first time.
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One benefit of CRISPR: Better plants!
For the first time ever, probably, plants modified with the "genetic scissors" CRISPR-Cas9 have been cultivated, harvested and cooked. Stefan Jansson, professor in Plant Cell and Molecular Biology at Umeå University, served pasta with "CRISPRy" vegetable fry to a radio reporter. Although the meal only fed two people, it was still the first step toward a future when science can better provide farmers and consumers around the world with healthy, beautiful and hardy plants.
Redditors want a strawcumber and a kiwanana:
https://reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5196lx/vegetables_modified_with_crisprcas9_have_been/
CRISPR could usher in a new era of delicious GMO foods:
http://theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/gmo-food-crispr-cabbage/500528/
https://reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/53vgeb/crispr_could_usher_in_a_new_era_of_delicious_gmo/
11:01 PM Sep 05 2016