CRISPR and other tools aren’t science fiction anymore. If the wealthy get there first, what happens to everyone else?

  • ndondo@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    This has been a thing for at least a few years. Luckily last I checked (pre pandemic) it hasn’t taken off bc

    1. Eugenics reminds people of Nazis and is bad
    2. Genetic diversity might be the only thing that saves us in another pandemic. Kind of like how strains of bananas all go extinct at once if they’re genetic clones.

    So probably too dangerous to actually take off any time soon. Iirc a Chinese scientist tried it and got sent to jail, seems to be a pretty universal thing

      • volvoxvsmarla@sopuli.xyz
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        21 hours ago

        It’s twins actually, Lulu and Nana. The gene editing might have increased their cognitive function.

        I don’t know why, but I cannot bring myself to condemn the editing.