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There has been a lot of work recently in stripping out sections of DNA from existing creatures to find the minimal set of genes that still perform all the necessary operations (essentially cell division and metabolism). One of the must publicized projects is also one of Craig Venter's projects and it's called the "Minimal Genome Project".

I think the answer to your question is a pretty difficult one. Can you remove part of the organism's DNA and have it still immediately viable? Yes, definitely. Will that have unknown side effects that make it less viable in the long run? Dunno.

How was your experience as a western woman working in Saudi Arabia? Were you treated the same as local women, or were there accommodations made for the freedoms you would have typically had elsewhere?

This isn’t a recent behaviour change, this is just how people in Russia are, since before I was born.

https://www.56thparallel.com/russian-smile/