Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
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#2I think this could have far greater dangers in the creation of super diseases.
How long until China turns this into a weapon by creating a virus with the spread of a common cold and the devastation of Ebola?
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#3I think this could have far greater dangers in the creation of super diseases. How long until China turns this into a weapon by creating a virus with the spread of a common cold and the devastation of Ebola?
Uh, what makes you think government bioweapon labs haven’t been doing that for decades, since the invention of genomics?
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#4I think this could have far greater dangers in the creation of super diseases. How long until China turns this into a weapon by creating a virus with the spread of a common cold and the devastation of Ebola?
Something that would rapidly spread back into their own highly dense population centres and wipe them out? For the most part world leaders aren’t this stupid.
Mostly.
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#5This just in: fucking with stuff we don't fully understand has negative consequences we don't fully understand.
I'm grateful this is happening, otherwise our hubris might get too out if hand.
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#6I think this could have far greater dangers in the creation of super diseases. How long until China turns this into a weapon by creating a virus with the spread of a common cold and the devastation of Ebola?
Uh, what makes you think government bioweapon labs haven’t been doing that for decades, since the invention of genomics?
Most major governments have already admitted to it because it's the only way to study how to counter such attacks without actually engaging in said warfare.
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#7I think this could have far greater dangers in the creation of super diseases. How long until China turns this into a weapon by creating a virus with the spread of a common cold and the devastation of Ebola?
Uh, what makes you think government bioweapon labs haven’t been doing that for decades, since the invention of genomics?
Bioweapons are
1) Cheaper
2) Harder to control
3) Less reliable
than traditional arms.
This makes them great weapons for poor countries who don't care about indiscriminate killing, but bad weapons for large countries that want precision strikes against specific enemies.
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Uh, what makes you think government bioweapon labs haven’t been doing that for decades, since the invention of genomics?
Most major governments have already admitted to it because it's the only way to study how to counter such attacks without actually engaging in said warfare.
Citation needed. Most governments that admitted to having a program, only admitted it after it had already been shut down.
Very few countries if any, admit to having a bioweapon program, let alone one based on gene-edited bioweapons.
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#9This just in: fucking with stuff we don't fully understand has negative consequences we don't fully understand. I'm grateful this is happening, otherwise our hubris might get too out if hand.
Indeed.
DNA is the most fucking complex and complicated programming language. We have barely any understanding of how the whole thing hangs together, let alone how it's parsed and written, and how it all translates from stem cells to whole organs, an immune system, the complex interrelation between organs, the nervous system, the whole gamut.
And that's not even touching on the nature of mind and consciousness in relation to the body, a perhaps even more enigmatic mystery than the whole story of DNA itself.
Re: Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA
#10I think this could have far greater dangers in the creation of super diseases. How long until China turns this into a weapon by creating a virus with the spread of a common cold and the devastation of Ebola?
Something that would rapidly spread back into their own highly dense population centres and wipe them out? For the most part world leaders aren’t this stupid. Mostly.
Eh. With gene drives we already have the technology to selectively target or not target particular ethnic groups.
Bio weapons are amongst the top threats we pose to ourselves as a species.
There’s a youtube series by a guy who made a virus to cure himself of lactose intolerance via gene therapy, that was pretty eye opening. To go from what he did to making a targeted bioweapon is not that much of a leap.