@RachelHaywire @oddblots @Atavisionary In long run, people are going to be customizing their kids' genomes anyway.
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@St_Rev@RachelHaywire @oddblots There are biological reasons why too heavily favoring specific genes could be bad http://atavisionary.com/avoid-monoculture/ …5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@RachelHaywire @oddblots Also, most genetic engineering techniques currently greatly increase cancer. Ok with mice, but ppl?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@Atavisionary@RachelHaywire @oddblots Cancer's an error-checking problem. Just fixing basal mutational load would be huge step forward.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@St_Rev@RachelHaywire @oddblots gene insertion works based on a statistical approach. Basically shotgun it in and hope one works.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@Atavisionary @RachelHaywire @oddblots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma_laboratorium#Synthetic_genome … Extremely primitive, but real.
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