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PSA: it's not as simple as: alter a gene, see an effect. There are complex regulatory networks involving genes which code for "chromatin remodeler" proteins wh
by __MatrixMan__ 3y ago
PSA: it's not as simple as: alter a gene, see an effect.
There are complex regulatory networks involving genes which code for "chromatin remodeler" proteins which go around altering the degree to genes are expressed.
Even if we can equip new CRISPR with vi keybindings and start pushing commits, we're testing in production and are still quite foggy about how the feature flags work.
- huytersd 3y agoAre all people production? Even death row inmates?
- maximus-decimus 3y agoDepends, do you want Musk to bribe judges to condemn more people to death penalty so he gets more human brain chip test subjects? To be clear, I'm not saying Musk would do that... but that kind of system would really be encouraging it.
- usrnm 3y agoYes?
- Faaak 3y agoDang it, we have no more death row test subjects left. Let's falsely accuse someone of murder
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoYes. If you want a staging environment you can use Neurospora Crassa.
- huytersd 3y agoThat’s not even close to staging. That’s more like a local dev environment on a dev’s pc with quickly generated mock data.
- RobotToaster 3y agoMove fast and break things never sounded more exciting.
- saiya-jin 3y agojust like all other medical research, we will test the heck out of it on lesser organisms that err... don't feel pain or something, probably