I don't actually get how gene therapy is supposed to work. Do the crispr type edits affect ongoing expression in mature cells? Could you actually change skin/eye/hair color like that n. korean badguy in that james bond movie?
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Too complex for tweets. Various ways of getting new genes in / editing existing genes in cells, delivering payload to target cells, different effects/tradeoffs. I'm working on designing gene therapy cure for diabetes. Will provide reference to review article(s) later.
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Also, generally, morphological changes will be very hard, and in mature tissues, all the more hard. (Meant morphology in the sense of e.g. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemi not relatively trivial edge cases like global skin pigmentation.)
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RE: Superpowers. Incorporate chlorophyll. Become solar powered and meat powered. Like a wimpy Clark Kent
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only one way to find out
i myself will go for chloroplasts
"dorian put some clothes on"
"what? i'm hungry!"
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it works by making your cells require not just energy but bitcoins to function






