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Genetic engineering was meant to save American chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake. (wapo.st)

submitted 1 year ago by silence7 to c/treehuggers

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A potential labelling error was the latest in a series of concerns for the American Chestnut Foundation, driving the nonprofit to pull support for a genetically engineered tree meant resurrect an iconic American species.

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[–] silence7 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

My understanding is that there were enough mistakes like that for the project funding to be cut

[–] LibertyLizard 1 points 11 months ago

Was the funding cut? The ACF has stopped backing the project, but I think that was a political and organizational backing, not necessarily financial.

[–] marine_mustang@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, and funding dictates the pace of work.