Why? To what purpose?
Maybe this?
“Researchers can model neurological diseases like Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s by selectively activating or inhibiting neurons to study disease mechanisms.”
Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica via assisted search
We can immunize you without your knowledge or consent.
Because they’re mad with power.
To usher in the return of the Messiah.
“Generative Optogenetics Department (GOD)” - fixed it.
The first thing that came to my mind was to give the FedGov the ability to create and then plant DNA evidence where it would be the most useful in neutralizing political opposition.
If successful this technology effectively neuters the sanctity of DNA collection as a method of crime investigations.
Pretty much anything. Wanna cure cancer? Wanna end birth defects? Wanna end degenerative diseases? Most of these things boil down to genetics, edit the genes fix the problem. Of course you can also make super soldiers and brainless automatons for factories. But hey, that’s science for you, it opens doors, what we shove through them is up to us.