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CRISPR creates new species with single giant chromosome
MIT Technology Review ^
| 08/01/2018
| Antonio Regalado
Posted on 08/01/2018 5:09:32 PM PDT by aimhigh
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Hey, we don't know how this works, so let's tinker with it. What could go wrong?
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:09:32 PM PDT
by
aimhigh
To: aimhigh
There’s a fern with 1260 chromosomes!
I did not know that.
I thought the most genetically complex plant was the orchid.
On the other hand I was taught that one of the simplest plants was the cannabis plant, but I admit to bias.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:13:49 PM PDT
by
T-Bone Texan
(I posit that there IS something left worth fighting for.)
To: aimhigh
Yeast is yeast and west is west and never the twain shall meet...
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:14:22 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Equality is important, but quality is paramount.)
To: aimhigh
I share your concerns, but.... like so many other elements of change in the new technologies that are emerging, it’s not a matter of liking it or disliking it, but accepting that it is out there, and competitors or antagonists will exploit it, whether we like it or not. So we need to master it and keep on top of what the Chinese, the Russians, the Indians, the Iranians, etc. are doing with it.
To: aimhigh
What do you expect from commies who deny God’s existence even when the proof thereof is staring them in the face?
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:15:23 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: aimhigh
It isn’t nuclear war we should worry about its guy’s in clean labs.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:17:18 PM PDT
by
Rurudyne
(Standup Philosopher)
Thats just the way it is. And no one is quite sure why.
If that is the way it is, there is a Being who made it that way. And if He did not feel the need to reveal why at this time, that is another test of faith.
The big one: Do we really need so many chromosomes? Thats what Zhogjun Qin and colleagues at the Key Laboratory of Synthetic Biology in Shanghai wanted to know.
And why should the Author of DNA and chromosomes reveal why to those that deny His existence?
It clearly is not good enough for such people (loosely called) to see that things go awry in both Down and Turner Syndromes (one extra and one fewer chromosome respectively).
And while we are at it, let us speculate what would have happened if those building the Tower of Babel were permitted to complete it.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:19:57 PM PDT
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: null and void
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:23:00 PM PDT
by
MortMan
(The white board is a remarkable invention.)
To: Olog-hai
A fall would have come in some other manner instead.
But it sure seems reckless to try to muck around with the chromosomes in the real world, and the science of the consequences may belatedly tell us at least some reasons for the partitioning. Probably something like: if it goes wrong, it will go wrong grandly.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:23:21 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: MortMan
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week.
Try the veal.
Don’t bother asking the waitress out, she only has a single chromosome and doesn’t date outside her species...
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:26:18 PM PDT
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null and void
(Equality is important, but quality is paramount.)
To: aimhigh
This is not going to end well....
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:26:39 PM PDT
by
PTBAA
To: aimhigh
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:27:44 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: aimhigh
The demise of our species will be due to a “laboratory curiosity” gone wild.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:28:29 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: null and void
Re-engineering humanity sure would have a very bad backwards-compatibility problem!
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:30:11 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: SpaceBar
All those low budget 50’s sci-fi movies were actually right.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:30:48 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: HiTech RedNeck
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:31:29 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Equality is important, but quality is paramount.)
To: null and void
Well, speaking of it as a software engineer might speak.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:32:11 PM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: aimhigh
What could possibly go wrong?
To: T-Bone Texan
More chromosomes doesn’t necessarily mean more complex. Plants tend to go through whole genome duplications more so than animals.
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:40:18 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
To: aimhigh
What could go wrong?
...
Don’t you trust the Chinese to be safe?
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posted on
08/01/2018 5:40:54 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(Give a man a fish and he'll be a Democrat. Teach a man to fish and he'll be a responsible citizen.)
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