Re: [DIYbio] Re: experienced beginner is creating a bioluminescent plant - both synbio and old-fashioned way

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In some countries, apparently including the UK, common marker genes are deregulated (ironically, given antibiotic resistance was one of the scaremongering things used to justify the law in the first place..). However, in others this isn't the case. Not here in Ireland as far as I know.

Also, whether "common markers" are maintained in an easily accessible list somewhere is probably down to a country's implementation.

Mega <masterstorm123@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes, if it's from A.thaliana, then you can use it without a license in
most EU states as it doesn't count as "Transgenic".

And no, there's no generational lapse to GMO status in Europe. Once
you put the black magic in, EU law regards it as black magic forever.
However, you can undergo a process of "deregulation" for GMOs, if you
can "prove" that it's totally safe. In practise, doing so is harder
than getting a drug approved, and in most countries it's ruinously
expensive. So, it virtually never happens: the only guys who can
afford to do it are the guys the law was written by idiots to impede:
megacorps.

Didn't know that!

But this would be amazing if possible!

Can it also be called "cisgenic" with some very common markers (GFP or Lux)? Or is that absolutely impossible??