Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by yters on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:28PM
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Could someone create a respiratory virus that spreads throughout the earth's population gene editing everyone into perfection?
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Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by jacquesm on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:54PM
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What could possibly go wrong?
Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by 0xdeadbeefbabe on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:55PM
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Or right
Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by bustin on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:13PM
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There's a pretty horrific short story about that
Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by 0-_-0 on Friday July 10, 2020 @07:40PM
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That's a great book, worth a read!
Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by DoofusOfDeath on Friday July 10, 2020 @04:25PM
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I would hope not, but I'm sure there's lots of science fiction predicated on similar ideas.
Re:Scientists make precise edits to mitochondrial DNA for fi...
by oscargrouch on Friday July 10, 2020 @10:01PM
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I'm afraid how this kind of stuff can be used to create some sort of DNA signature, lets say, for people of a giving country. A government could do it through vaccines for example.
This later could be use to spread biologic weapons that would be engineered to not attack hosts cells with that particular signature.. as everybody else that were not "marked" would die..
We need to advance a lot morally and ethically as a societies, because i'm pretty sure atomic bombs will look like child stuff compared to the harm we could do with the things being discovered.
And giving the current trends, im very pessimistic about our future prospects. We have too much corruption by design, embedded in our cultural systems.