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Crispr
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:26 pm
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:26 pm
HEY LOOK!!!!!! A thread NOT about Trump or porn stars or Russia or Pelosi or Mueller or any of that other stupid bullshite..
Searched and didn't see anything.
Who all watched the segment on 60 minutes about Crispr the past Sunday?
This is a very huge and exciting breakthrough in genetic manipulation. The doctor who created Crispr will be worth a lot of money in the near future. Billions.
The reason I posted this here on the PT is that this is really what "playing God" is. We've heard that phrase a few times. This will become political big time. The tech is still pretty new With Crispr, I believe we will pretty much be able to grow whatever kind of person we want. Right now, Crispr is being utilized as a potential genetic disease or condition manipulator.
I think this Crispr is a much bigger deal than it's given credit for. Applications could be enormous.
Just wondering the board's thoughts. Science or God?
I'm all about Science. I'm not a very religious person. There's other possible problems from this technology as well...
The biggest one of the top of my head...
Extending the life of the average person by 10 or more years?
That alone could be a huge planning issue and would require new thinking and new policy development for retirement, healthcare, etc.
I'm all for this breakthrough tech. I believe the rewards outweigh the problems. 6,000 diseases could be pretty much eradicated immediately.
Searched and didn't see anything.
Who all watched the segment on 60 minutes about Crispr the past Sunday?
This is a very huge and exciting breakthrough in genetic manipulation. The doctor who created Crispr will be worth a lot of money in the near future. Billions.
The reason I posted this here on the PT is that this is really what "playing God" is. We've heard that phrase a few times. This will become political big time. The tech is still pretty new With Crispr, I believe we will pretty much be able to grow whatever kind of person we want. Right now, Crispr is being utilized as a potential genetic disease or condition manipulator.
I think this Crispr is a much bigger deal than it's given credit for. Applications could be enormous.
Just wondering the board's thoughts. Science or God?
I'm all about Science. I'm not a very religious person. There's other possible problems from this technology as well...
The biggest one of the top of my head...
Extending the life of the average person by 10 or more years?
That alone could be a huge planning issue and would require new thinking and new policy development for retirement, healthcare, etc.
I'm all for this breakthrough tech. I believe the rewards outweigh the problems. 6,000 diseases could be pretty much eradicated immediately.
This post was edited on 5/3/18 at 12:29 pm
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Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:29 pm to i am dan
CRISPR/Cas9 has been around for a while now. There was also a battle going on in the courts to determine who the inventor really was. Not sure what ever came of it.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:32 pm to i am dan
I think crispr will be the building blocks with which we create the next generation of human beings. In my mind, there are two main questions that need to be answered to truly hack the genetic code to manipulate organisms in any manner we wish: what sequences do we change, and how do we change them? Crispr answers the second half of that question, and with developments in machine learning and computers that can analyze more data in a minute than geneticists could in a lifetime, I think we are on track to answering the first one. In 100 years, we will be able to create some kind of super smart, ageless human being.
At least the comic book nerd in me hopes so.
At least the comic book nerd in me hopes so.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:33 pm to i am dan
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Extending the life of the average person by 10 or more years?
So people I don't like right now I have to deal with for 10 more yrs? Yeah frick that
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:35 pm to Wtodd
80 years of this bullshite is enough. No thanks.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:36 pm to i am dan
If you are asking about the potential applications with regards to eugenics and the moral questions that arise therein, you could write a textbook about that shite and frankly I don't give a damn. I'm more interested in the possibilities and limitations.
What does scare the conspiracy theorist in me is that if it does lead to some of the miraculous applications some in the scientific community predict, we could have an ageless ruling class as the only ones with access to the technology and then it's basically game over home skillet.
What does scare the conspiracy theorist in me is that if it does lead to some of the miraculous applications some in the scientific community predict, we could have an ageless ruling class as the only ones with access to the technology and then it's basically game over home skillet.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:37 pm to i am dan
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This is a very huge and exciting breakthrough in genetic manipulation. The doctor who created Crispr will be worth a lot of money in the near future. Billions.
I bought a couple CRISPR related stocks late last year
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:41 pm to i am dan
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Science or God?
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:43 pm to i am dan
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That alone could be a huge planning issue and would require new thinking and new policy development for retirement, healthcare, etc.
Unless they are productive for those extra ten years.
SS retirement age would need to be increased.
This post was edited on 5/3/18 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 5/3/18 at 12:55 pm to i am dan
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6,000 diseases could be pretty much eradicated immediately.
Posted on 5/3/18 at 1:09 pm to Big_Slim
quote:I’m not convinced. CRISPR requires a ton of cells to actually get what you want, and when you are getting pregnant, the female only produces one cell (ovum). So you need to take that cell out of the body, go through the process of altering the genome without killing it, put it back into the body, and then pray that you actually get the genes you want expressed. Maybe that could happen one day, but we are nowhere close to that.
I think crispr will be the building blocks with which we create the next generation of human beings.
I’m much more confident that it will allow us to cure long term chronic blood-borne illnesses (such as HIV). We would be able to take out a large pool of CD4 T cells and create mutations in CCR5 to make them resistant to HIV. We could then reintroduce those cells into the body so that the body would have a pool of HIV-resistant T cells.
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