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Originally posted by Sparko View PostThere are specific genetic traits in various races, otherwise we would all look alike.
Race is almost entirely a social construct. It has no objective reality. Are there people with darker skin? Yes, but that is no more surprising to modern day biology than the fact there exists a family of all gingers. Its just neutral drift caused by long term isolation.
But even scarier would be being able to target the specific DNA of an individual for assassination purposes.
Personally though I think we'll see a lot of positive aspects of CRISPR, though its a difficult technology. Apparently there's a lot of side effect mutations. While they specifically change one gene a certain way, many others are also mutated. Apparently though this doesn't have as much of an effect as we could fear, as the majority of the human DNA is useless junk without function or purpose.
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostThis is actually false, though I'll see if I can find you the studies tomorrow. Basically it is impossible to draw a line around any ethnic group another, without genetic overlap. While its possible for certain rare mutations to exist much more frequently in one group, its still only a few genes. What we look like is caused by a complex interaction between many genes, and those are shared amongst all.
Race is almost entirely a social construct. It has no objective reality. Are there people with darker skin? Yes, but that is no more surprising to modern day biology than the fact there exists a family of all gingers. Its just neutral drift caused by long term isolation.
That's much more plausible! And there are ways to wreck havoc on a person in such a way that they'd die many months later, so that it would be difficult to know who was the cause of it.
Personally though I think we'll see a lot of positive aspects of CRISPR, though its a difficult technology. Apparently there's a lot of side effect mutations. While they specifically change one gene a certain way, many others are also mutated. Apparently though this doesn't have as much of an effect as we could fear, as the majority of the human DNA is useless junk without function or purpose.
I think this technology will change society, for good and bad, forever. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.
edited to fix error.Last edited by Sparko; 08-03-2017, 01:29 PM.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postfrom what I read, CRISPR is to DNA basically what "search and replace" is for word processors. You can search for specific genes and either eliminate them, or replace them with other genes. Kinda like an artificial virus.
I think this technology will change society, for good and bad, forever. You can't put the genie back in the bible.
I'll try to get some links, but right now I'm a bit bushed. Got home from my new job, working at a company called Launch-It (the one in Aarhus). Its a great place, and I thank god for having a job again.
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostI would think where they replaced the gene would make it a weaker bond in the chromosome, making it more susceptible to other maladies. For example, fixing diabetes could end up increasing pancreatic cancer if the chromosome mutates at the weakened genetic area. It could also get passed on, and in a few generations, mutate to something deadly for the humans that inherit it.I'm not here anymore.
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Originally posted by Carrikature View PostIs there an actual scientific basis for this weaker bond concept? This sounds really made up.Micah 6:8 He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
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Originally posted by Carrikature View PostIs there an actual scientific basis for this weaker bond concept? This sounds really made up.That's what
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Originally posted by Bill the Cat View PostNah. Just me trying to wrap my head around removing a portion of a strand and replacing it with no loss of integrity. Anything I have spliced over the years has been weaker at the splice.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
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Originally posted by Carrikature View PostIs there an actual scientific basis for this weaker bond concept? This sounds really made up.
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Originally posted by Leonhard View PostPretty much, though the last I've heard they discovered it makes errors on occasion. You have high precision in targetting a particular mutation you want to cause, but it also changes other things accidentally.Enter the Church and wash away your sins. For here there is a hospital and not a court of law. Do not be ashamed to enter the Church; be ashamed when you sin, but not when you repent. – St. John Chrysostom
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