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When subcultures like furries or bronies get hold of it, things may get more than a bit odd.
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
When subcultures like furries or bronies get hold of it, things may get more than a bit odd.
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoAny genome edit large enough to make you look like a dog would most likely kill you, or at least render any embryos you may conceive non-viable. GENETICS IS HARD.
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoSimultaneously its easy. We modify bacteria, fish, dogs all the time with success. Sure you can go wrong sometimes, but you can go very right too. Add limbs to flies. Make them glow in the dark. And so on.
- nsxwolf 12y agoBut there are limits to what genes can express, based on the cell's capabilities. For instance, you could make someone a wolfman by adding hair, but you couldn't have them grow leaves like the Jolly Green Giant. Our cells just don't have the kernel level support or whatever you want to call it.
- transphenomenal 12y agoWe share half our genes with the banana. Granted the scientists are (probably) only talking about editing the 0.3% of the genome that makes humans different from each other, but with so much of our DNA shared with other eukaryote celled life, adding leaves may not be that difficult.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoWe share half our genes with the banana. Given that the other half come from monkeys, is this why babies try and eat their toes?
- JoeAltmaier 12y agoI embrace this. What will race matter, when we meet people of different species every day? It will change everything.