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Smallpox? Why thousands? You could say millions of years, you could say billions. Just don't go over 14 billions, it would be complete nonsense.
Smallpox vaccine is first vaccine ever made. Second vaccine took another while to be developed. Then they started to be created much more often. In current age developing vaccine for new virus(example) takes...
- December 2019 - first recorded case
- May 2020 - announcement of start of development
- August 2020 - studies ended
- September 2020 - studies published
Obviously you can find vaccine that was developed faster.
But since we are talking about genetically engieneering trees, here's example. There is fungus that threats to make Cavendish banana and first was found in 90-ies, and I found article from 2023 about Australia approving export of engieneered bananas.
Now back to CVPD. ~~Since how CVPD works is described in~~ Did we both miss "Antisense oligonucleotides" subsection? Exact modifications are already known. Just insert them into tree.
EDIT: typos
EDIT2: export of modified bananas, not fungus. Lol.
Actually, the more data we get from JWST, the more evidence we get that the universe is older than 14 billion years. Some estimates have it in the 25 - 30 billion year range.