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Jaime Jessop's avatar

If I understood all of this it would blow my mind. Fortunately, a sufficient degree of ignorance combined with a certain intellectual laziness to dig deeper into all of this stuff curtails my wildest imaginings.

So nobody 'invented' CRISPR; some humans noticed that archaeons and bacteria used it as a neat trick to protect themselves from infection and so decided to exploit it, patent it and make a load of money in the process, as well as perhaps deciding that they would appoint themselves as the 'accelerant' of human evolution, thus deposing God and Charles Darwin.

AFAIK, my genome hasn't been harvested yet by these psychos for their Universal Database because I refrained from being forced to or voluntarily submitting to shoving an ethylene soaked extra long cotton bud up my nose halfway to my brain in order to test for the presence of a virus which was not causing the presence of any symptoms. I intend to try to keep it that way until death do us part, on account of my genome being a very Selfish Genome. I don't mind God or Darwin opening it up to take a looksie now and then, but I draw the line at psychos loaded with cash generated from patents doing so.

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John Cave's avatar

I wonder how inherited genomic integration might effect the next generation?

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