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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for November 3, 2019
I haven't read a whole lot about CRISPR - just enough to be peripherally aware of it. I'll have to start paying more attention to it in my RSS feeed. Thanks for the feedback!
It's basically a magic knife that allows you to insert DNA at any site in any genome. It's very simple to use. The only complex thing about it is knowing what to insert where to achieve a particular goal. The cost of the equipment is negligible, and is easy to get and deploy.
For the cost of a weekend stay at a hotel you could take a course (that supplied all necessary hardware and research materials) that teaches you how to genetically engineer yourself. Not even joking. Thousands of people are doing this today. People are making custom yeasts for brewing beer. People are making dogs that glow in the dark, and curing AIDS (oddly, that guy 'died' during the filming of 'Unnatural Selection'. Plenty of suspects, none of whom seem to be the NIH, CDC, or WHO). These are topics covered in the documentary 'Unnatural Selection', but there are also people doing whatever they want to whatever they want to do it to, and if they don't tell us we won't know, because there's no way to find out what they're doing in their bathroom, or garden shed.
One prediction I will make now: some people will grow antlers, just because they can.
Interesting. I see that the documentary is available on Netflix. I hadn't heard of it before your comments. I'll have to check it out.
Given what I have seen of human nature, I'm inclined to believe your prediction. And after that, maybe we'll have crowds of people on Steem who dedicate a month to sharing photos of their antlers. ; -)