(September 15, 2017 at 8:59 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(September 15, 2017 at 8:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I suspect the cost will prevent its widespread usage.
CRISPR Cas9 is cheap. And this is how they'll do it. Once they improve the accuracy, it will be available to almost everyone.
The ethical implications are not easy to solve, but I think the biggest thing is that we cannot allow any changes or modifications enter the genome. This is something that medical ethicists are agreed on.
GMO corn is planted next to fields of "regular" corn, and those modifications are gradually spreading through the rest of the genome from the pollen being free and easy on the wind. Think "killer bees", and you get the idea. There is no way that the modifications will be kept out of the rest of the gene pool. The modifications will eventually spread.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
