CRISPR

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>>8972652
hey shill

>>8972662
Hi /pol/.

>>8972646
Quick, spell out every word in the CRISPR acronym without looking it up

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>>8972678

>>8972646
U mean cas9??

>>8972690
yeah

We don't even know what the majority of the genome does, let alone what making changes at will would do.

At most, we can hope it will cure single point mutation congenital diseases.

>>8972646

ever read all the HIV/aids papers claiming 'NEXT BIG STEP IN CURING IS CRISPR'

well at the end of their discussion they say a jargoned version of the following:

'we are not sure what will happen AFTER implementation into the genome'

Since, you know, the way CRISPR works is it 'learns' the 'disease' so next time it will be immune.

>>8972646
It was, until this happened:
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-crispr-gene-hundreds-unintended-mutations.html

The hype is over.

>>8972646
The problem with modifying genes that express "hyper intelligence" or "super strength" is that you will inevitably cause debilitating diseases in other parts of the body, long term. All expression has to exist in a balance.

The human has evolved to be the way it is because it's the most sustainable genome to its ever changing environment.

Don't forget, a lot of gene expression is determined by environmental stimulus, not the genome itself, and the body will selectively activate and deactivate genes depending on the environment.

Hyper modified organisms to function at their engineered potential have to exist in a super specific and highly maintained environment - which requires a lot of resources, otherwise they won't survive (e.g. "express"); that goes for strength and intelligence. (think spending all day in a gym / library).

Just because you've changed someone to have a higher IQ doesn't mean they will, unless you put the person through decades of tuition and force them to study against their will; and the second they stop "studying", they'll quickly lose that engineered advantage to reequilibriate; and that high IQ doesn't neccessarily give them an advantage in succeeding in life.

Designer babies are a science meme for millionaires, that costs a lot more to get the genes to express long-term than it does to pay to change them to begin with.

>"masterrace", you can be as intelligence as you want but it only takes an islamic army of barbarians to come knocking on your civilizations door and you're dead, making them the masterrace.

Survival of the fittest is really just having the right ability at the right time, and that could be something as simple as knowing how to operate a firearm effectively.

>>8972866

This is what based China is doing right now. They are experimenting on stem cells to see if they can make them immune to cancers before they differentiate to lets say an eye or a kidney receptor.

>>8972646
It is famous. That's why retards like you know about it despite having at best a tenuous grasp on the basic principles of molecular biology.

>>8972646
>Why isn't CRISPR famous?
Wrong premise. It *is* famous. Don't just read sports "news".

>>8972865
FUCK

>>8972870
Can you berate me some more
I come to this board specifically for this

>>8972646
Ignoring you're obvious naivety
>brainlets actually belive it is possible to have "perfect" crops simply with genetic modification.
Even if your sci fi memes were true that would still be absurd. Ecological illiteracy is a serious problem.

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>>8972868
>immune to cancers
seems a strange idea on its face, like they're trying to supersede the immune system?

>>8974009
Eh the tool we tried to make was basically a hack job, there will probably be something that works better down the road based on similar principles.

But it's probably far enough down the road to push that unlikely immortality completely out of reach for us. Such is life.

>>8972646
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