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This research on coercing stem cells into eggs/sperm is hugely important and significant. It's the key bottleneck holding us back from safe, effective, affordab

• aorloff 12y ago
  Exactly what about that could possibly be "safe" ? Even if it were medically safe, how would you make sure that people used it in societally acceptable ways and that it didn't imperil the long term genetic pool of the human race ?
  • toomuchtodo 12y ago
    > Even if it were medically safe, how would you make sure that people used it in societally acceptable ways and that it didn't imperil the long term genetic pool of the human race ? You can't. That's both the beauty and fear of it. We'll either have immortality, or extinction.
  • gcr 12y ago
    "The philosophical problem with Eugenics is that it involved culling imperfect people who already exist. Now we can cull imperfect people who don't exist, so they can't complain!" (for the record, this is a joke)
• toomuchtodo 12y ago
  I'm a glowing plants kickstarter backer. You and your team are doing great work!
  • a1369209993 12y ago
    > glowing plants That is possibly the best biotech startup name I have yet seen.