CRIPSR-Cas9

Mentallaw,

Thanks for finally taking the bait. I was hoping that you would chime in.

A brief note of appreciation for this thread where rational discourse seems to underlie both motivation and commentary.

I agree. The whole prospect is incredibly exciting.

The NetFlix documentary Human Nature that I mentioned on this topic does a decent job with not only covering the tech in lay terms, but the ethical and moral implications of mucking with nature.

One interesting example is the ability to cure sickle cell anemia using CRISPR, but in nature, this is more prominent in areas that are affected by malaria, and people with sickle cell are immune to malaria.

Recently I think it was VA mentioned that there is now a vaccine for malaria, so perhaps that changes the game as well.

Gene splicing and consequent biohacking has been a topic for all sorts of fantasy. Genetic modifications are biochemically simpler than they were several decades ago thanks to the tech that is the topic of the thread. Figuring out what might actually function and survive in the wild is somewhat more complicated: there is a reason that evolution has taken as long as it has--trial and error is mostly error.

Why would they get upset? They would have the ability to manipulate as many genes as possible to get the perfect Aryan race they want.

With all the talk about the Great Reset, and all the flame wars between Vaxxers vs Anti-vaxxers, I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more about new and improved abilities to splice and modify genes. I’m fairly confident that the anti-science crowd will be losing their shite once the Alex Jones types start getting the bullet points from their researchers.