• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      2 months ago

      Pretty sure there’s no nucleobases that start with the letter I though (although to be fair there is a single nucleoside, Inosene).

  • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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    Little problem…for good reasons, editing the germ line of a human is illegal in most countries. But now that Nazism is cool again, why not go full Mengele. Secondly, this is somehow better than pre-implantation genetic diagnosis? That’s >30 years old, it allows to only implant embryos free of genetic disease. Stops the disease in future generations forever, without the error rates of gene editing.

    What do they consider a genetic disease? Brown eyes and hair?

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      Okay, you can work on the fat thing, but the other two? Just sit in a chair in the middle of the room all day and say things like “engage”, “make it so” and “where’s my tea, earl grey, hot, number one?”, problems solved.