Monday, August 3, 2015

Rewriting genetic sequences

Discussion by experts on what it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-t5VrCtY1Q

How the CRISPer system works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuAxDVBt7kQ

Examples of its use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYNkbW3lMYo

My comments.
1. This is a very useful technology when used by sane people for sane purposes.
2. Will this be used as a biological weapon? You betcha.
3. Is this how evolution took place? There was NO MACROEVOLUTION. This mechanism can introduce new mutations and even steal genes from other organisms, but not MAKE genes that are not present in organisms living already. Going from organism to organism involves different mechanisms that simply can not evolve by random mutations. All these experiments prove that an intelligent entity can change the design.

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