Ivan Yudin\TASS via Getty Images September 22, 2021 Calling the latest gene technologies ‘natural’ is a semantic distraction — they must still be regulated Jack Heinemann, University of Canterbury; Brigitta Kurenbach, University of Canterbury; Deborah Paull, University of Canterbury, and Sophie Walker, University of Canterbury Nuclear bombs use reactions that can occur naturally, but that is a nonsense argument to deregulate them. So why are these same arguments used to promote deregulation of gene technology?
