Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA

Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by anigbrowl on Saturday December 22, 2018 @03:53PM (#18742399)

C may let you shoot yourself in the foot, C++ may let you blow your whole leg off, but only CRISPR will let you turn it back into a tentacle.

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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by goatlover on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:01PM (#18742981)

So maybe The Thing was an alien CRISPR experiment gone wrong.

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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by ethbro on Saturday December 22, 2018 @07:01PM (#18743305)

You just described the plot of Prometheus too.

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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by starbeast on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:35PM (#18743795)

How wide is the set of potential tentacles?

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