Australian scientists say they have discovered how an enzyme “hidden in nature’s blueprint” could help develop climate-resilient crops able to remove more carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Wait a minute. The Eugenics Wars in #StarTrek were all about people who had #GeneticEngineering performed on them getting into a big fight for control over the earth. So what happened to all the #Furries?
As soon as the technology became available, who would want it more than a #Furry? Splicing animal genes in to people is probably easier than trying to give humans vision into the ultraviolet spectrum apropos of nothing. I'm certain that at least some suspiciously wealthy furries would have engineered their kids into being anthros or at least kemonomimis.
Did Khan Noonien Singh have troops who went awooo at the moon reflexively? How did Catians react to learning humans wished they could be like them?
Early human development is a complex, multistep process that’s complicated to study in the lab. Models made from stem cells avoid some of the trouble with using real human embryos.
“By embracing the complexities and potential of synthetic embryology, researchers stand on the brink of a new era in biological understanding and are poised to unravel the mysteries of life itself.” – Min Yang, University of Washington
"On December 8th, the American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) made a shocking announcement that it was withdrawing support for several pending regulatory petitions that authorize the distribution of the controversial transgenic American chestnut tree, called Darling 58, outside permitted research plots due to “significant performance limitations.”
"...TACF cited performance limitations for all Darling progeny, which included lack of blight resistance, unexplained high mortality rates, and poor growth."
Looks like the skeptics of genetics engineering were, once again, mostly correct in their critiques.
A biotechnology company is receiving NIH support for discovering antibodies that address the vast majority of proteins coded by the human genome, passed-up so far by drug makers.
One thing I really like about #StarTrek is its persistent rejection (in TOS; TNG; DS9; ...) of #GeneticEngineering
Many people, including some philosophers at prestigious elitist universities like Oxford, who are toying with this idea would do well to listen to Jean-Luc Picard!
EDIT: clip is from season 5, episode 13, "The Masterpiece Society"
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#GeneticEngineering has pro ably helped millions of humans survive, not least the #Covid19#Pandemic. The #mRNA that #Moderna developed has a new technology at its hard, #CRISPR, that made those revolution possible. DNA is cut up with incredible precision so that parts of the DNA can be removed or new parts inserted.
...#ScienceFiction has made 7 forecasts that already have become possible in real life.
Author and erstwhile reporter and editor #SueBurke makes a reality check of #SciFi novels, giving as the possibility to see where humanity might be headed in #GeneticEngineering:
Seven Times Science Fiction Got Genetic Engineering Right