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It's really amazing that humanity is at the stage where we're intentionally evading our own immunity to bacterial components so we can repurpose the components
by meowface 8y ago
It's really amazing that humanity is at the stage where we're intentionally evading our own immunity to bacterial components so we can repurpose the components to help ourselves.
- naravara 8y agoWhat if it’s actually just time travelers coming back to code the immunity into us to protect us from the unintended consequences of gene hacking? (This is a joke, in case that needs clarifying)
- kowdermeister 8y agoIt's already like hacking some alien computer in a short amount of time :)
- kitd 8y agoThere's got to be a great scifi story in there somewhere.
- justfor1comment 8y agoThis is the plot of the Trunks storyline in Dragon Ball Z.
- markatkinson 8y agoI know right. I also just came from an article that had to use an electron microscope to photograph the accelerometer in our phones. I never realised how small things have gotten.
- Lukas_Skywalker 8y ago"iPhones are allergic to helium" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693
- wiz21c 8y agobut it's a bit sad that it can't intentionally help it to handle cancer.
- dotancohen 8y agoYet. By the way, "cancer" is a class of diseases, not a single disease to treat, and many of them currently have CRISPR-derived treatments being actively developed.
- patates 8y agoLooking forward to the days that even the worst kinds of cancerous tissues would be a drug or two away from complete destruction. I hope that at one point, when someone asks about what would happen if a single maintainer of a project gets cancer tomorrow or gets hit by a bus, the answer would be, "well she/he can take a pill, and, what is this 'bus' thing you oldies keep joking about anyway?" :)
- meko 8y agoCancer is my worst fear and has also killed so many of my family and loved ones. It's a slow painful death where you get progressively weaker. I really do hope there is some light at the end of the tunnel there.
- wiz21c 8y agoI'm no expert. Do you believe it's just a question of time ?
- EpicEng 8y agoWell, the experts do at least.