Engineered organisms pose potential risks including out-competing the native microbiome, performing unintended phenotypes that are detrimental in non-target environments, and the unintentional spread of traits through horizontal gene transfer.

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  Engineering biology applications for environmental solutions - Nature

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• horizontal gene transfer concept