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Definitely not. Current estimates put viral DNA at about 8% of the human genome.

• im3w1l 2y ago
  Would it be possible to consider them separately though? Like maybe it will turn out that say 10% of them are beneficial, 65% of them are neutral (either they do nothing at all or a mixture of benefit and harm), and 25% are slightly bad for us (can't be too harmful or we would have already known ig).
  • biophysboy 2y ago
    Delivering gene therapies into brain cells is a non-trivial task. Also, there's alternatives to cutting the original sequence out; you can also dampen the transcribed RNA with downstream therapies.
    • suoduandao3 2y ago
      I thought this was more of a 'designer babies' suggestion than a 'mess with the source code after it's finished compiling' one.
  • AdamN 2y ago
    'Bad' is notoriously hard to figure out. It might be good for the group to have a few people with major psychiatric disorders even if it's not ideal for that individual or the people who have to directly interact with them.