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This is very interesting. In a limited but substantial way, transplanting parts of the photosynthetic cell system could help with a lot of cell-centric metaboli
by clnq 4y ago
This is very interesting. In a limited but substantial way, transplanting parts of the photosynthetic cell system could help with a lot of cell-centric metabolic deficiencies in people, from T1 diabetes to hypoxia in general. The delivery method seems to be cumbersome. But perhaps in the next decade we'll have CRISPR vectors that can deliver genetic information for organelles in a cell, and that could also help with rejection.
Slightly related - this study reminds me of an Andy Weir short story Antihypoxiant - http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/antihypoxiant.html http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/antihypoxiant.html.
- mwcampbell 4y agoIf you read that story all the way through, I think it's a good warning against applying "move fast and break things" to biotech.
- dekhn 4y agoI have in my head, but have not written down, a sci fi story similar to that- "diybio" where some smart grad students clone cephalopod camoflague genes and make a crispr delivery system to give people the ability to grow moving tattoos that glow (go look at a cuttlefish). They go to burning man and give it away- massive night raves with people dancing around, etc. based on those good results, they go back to the lab and cook up a general purpose "edit your own genome for free!" project and put all the steps to reproduce it in a github repo. But... after half the world has downloaded and started playing, those burning man people start dying of cancer.