(September 16, 2017 at 11:27 pm)Coveny Wrote: Making us more resilient could pose other problems to the symbiosis we call the human digestive system. If they wanted us to be able to get the nutrients we need without bacteria and other lifeforms living in us, they would really have to rework the human body to overcome the deficiencies. Also there are issues with creating a totally different type of class warfare where you have the designer people of means versus then randoms who can't afford it.
We have on board already the needed genetics to make our own vitamin C except maybe for a single gene or something. Rats can make their own vitC and at one time our distant ancestors could too. It would be 'easy' (compared to making humans able to regrow severed limbs) to make humans permanently immune to scurvy.
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