Jobson and Qiu (2008) took a more selectionist stance on the issue, arguing that RNA editing arose in land plant chloroplasts through natural selection imposed by functional constraints on the encoded proteins.
Because of an editing error, an article on Saturday about the gun-control stance of Senator John Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, referred incorrectly at one point, in some editions, to the firearm he used on a pheasant hunt in Iowa.
On Wednesday, the US government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) restated their position that it will "not fund any use of gene-editing technologies in human embryos". The NIH views such editing of the "germline" in human embryos as "a line that should not be crossed". The stance will essentially stifle any research on gene editing in embryos in the US.
Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this article misstated Ricardo Rosselló's stance on shutting down much of the government for two days every month for the rest of the fiscal year.
Until this week, USDA's stance on the CRISPR-Cas9 system, which allows gene editing much more quickly and easily than in the past, was unclear.
CORRECTION: Due to an editing error, an earlier version of this story contained two instances where the groups' stance on fracking was misstated.
What I learned while editing my upcoming co-authored book, Innovating Women, is that leaders must take a proactive stance in integrating diverse voices.
I edited the "snide" out of my remarks and, while I still disagreed with her stance, we had a pleasant, productive conversation.
Van Eenennaam is ardently opposed to that regulatory stance, and has spearheaded a petition calling for the US to harmonize its gene editing regulations.
Individuals thought about their safety; businesses about their balance sheets.The White House's sceptical stance lost credibility last year when it emerged that Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, had been editing scientific reports to emphasise uncertainties in climate science.
