Mr. M Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.32 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 6.91 Reputation: 1,798 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Share Posted April 2, 2023 This is becoming increasing common in Asia https://theconversation.com/genetic-engineering-and-human-animal-hybrids-how-china-is-leading-a-global-split-in-controversial-research-121473 magazine article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. M Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.32 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 6.91 Reputation: 1,798 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 MIT Technology Review about human-monkey hybrids https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/08/01/652/scientists-are-making-human-monkey-hybrids-in-china/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FJK Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 0 Topic Count: 43 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 3,349 Content Per Day: 7.63 Reputation: 1,305 Days Won: 1 Joined: 03/01/2023 Status: Offline Share Posted April 2, 2023 There will be no good come from this, it will simply be evil disguised as good so that it is accepted. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. M Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.32 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 6.91 Reputation: 1,798 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 2 minutes ago, FJK said: There will be no good come from this, it will simply be evil disguised as good so that it is accepted. Yes, this is presented by the world in a positive way as it supposedly makes advances in medicine; while acknowledging the controversial nature of the research. China remains overwhelmingly godless, so it comes as no surprise where the work is going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloom Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 147 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 23 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/13/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted April 2, 2023 CRISPER has become go to technology to alter the human genome.The mrna vaccine for covid was made using CRISPER. The lastest from the Chinese is crossing a water bear DNA with a humans DNA to cause the human to be immune to nuclear radiation.Hope it does'nt mutate. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. M Posted April 2, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 8 Topic Count: 743 Topics Per Day: 1.32 Content Count: 3,893 Content Per Day: 6.91 Reputation: 1,798 Days Won: 12 Joined: 10/28/2022 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/18/1956 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 14 minutes ago, bloom said: CRISPER has become go to technology to alter the human genome.The mrna vaccine for covid was made using CRISPER. The lastest from the Chinese is crossing a water bear DNA with a humans DNA to cause the human to be immune to nuclear radiation.Hope it does'nt mutate. Have you seen the movie Annihilation? Novel was better, as is typical, but the movie was clever. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B079Z1MH7R/ref=atv_hm_vid_c_vJb2Rv_1_1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloom Posted April 3, 2023 Group: Advanced Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 147 Content Per Day: 0.05 Reputation: 23 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/13/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted April 3, 2023 12 hours ago, Mr. M said: Have you seen the movie Annihilation? Novel was better, as is typical, but the movie was clever. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B079Z1MH7R/ref=atv_hm_vid_c_vJb2Rv_1_1 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis1209 Posted April 3, 2023 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 18 Topic Count: 350 Topics Per Day: 0.13 Content Count: 7,508 Content Per Day: 2.70 Reputation: 5,408 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/27/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted April 3, 2023 Because of national security, future wars, and citizen control, the U.S. feels obligated to keep up with all battlefield weaponry, including soldiers. Does anyone remember the official announcement of the creation of “super soldiers?” These super soldiers are not modified skeletal machinery like in the movies. The ideal super soldier is more potent and faster, needs less food and sleep, has enhanced and modified physical senses, and uses AI technology to make decisions. In other words, genetically modified. It is no secret some of the best legal minds have met to work out the definitions and legalities of enhanced humans. The world is getting scarier by the day. Take a look at the numerous YouTube videos of robots and artificial intelligence. It is only what we are allowed to see and where we are going, and it is near the point where a robot and human will be indistinguishable. Numerous leaks of Google and others have problems with AI becoming sentient. I see the many threats facing us in addition to the above, threats of nuclear war from Putin, North Korea, and Iran—the collapsing global economy and aggression—everything from terrorism to wokism, from counterculture to celebrating abominations. It leaves no doubt that we are living in perilous (dangerous) times, as the Bible predicts. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Barbarian Posted April 3, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 27 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5,082 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 974 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/20/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted April 3, 2023 (edited) 16 hours ago, bloom said: CRISPER has become go to technology to alter the human genome.The mrna vaccine for covid was made using CRISPER. The lastest from the Chinese is crossing a water bear DNA with a humans DNA to cause the human to be immune to nuclear radiation.Hope it does'nt mutate. There are all sorts of potential problems with this technology. Yes, it worked to our benefit with vaccines, but it could also lead to harmful things. The story you saw was about a Japanese biologist who sequenced the tardigrade genome and discovered that specific Dsup proteins which protect the DNA of the little animals. They did not "cross" human and tardigrade DNA. They inserted one specific gene for Dsup into the DNA of some human cells. Tardigrades are resistant to radiation, but it's not clear that the Dsup proteins could be made to work for humans. It does work for specific human cells in cell cultures: Kunieda tested this with lab-cultured kidney cells, genetically engineering these cells to produce Dsup themselves. "The human cells that made Dsup saw a reduction of around 40 to 50 percent in the DNA damage caused by X-rays compared with control cells,” Kunieda noted. When RNA was used to sabotage the Dsup gene, the protection against radiation disappeared completely. This proved that Dsup is the key factor. Assuming this ability can be successfully recreated in all the cells of a fully-grown organism like us, it could make human beings and other animals immune to radiation. "It could be helpful for space flight, radiotherapy and radiation workers in the far future,” Kunieda believes. That's a big if, of course. https://futurism.com/the-secret-is-out-scientists-figured-out-how-tardigrades-became-immune-to-radiation We just don't know what all the consequences of having a Dsup gene in humans might be. Decades of work would be needed in what would be for most humans, a rather small benefit. A small decrease in cancer rates would be the most significant potential benefit. It would be more useful for humans in space, of course. That's why bioethics has become such a hot topic and why there are increasingly detailed rules for researchers in this area. Nevertheless, if something is possible, someone will eventually do it. And therein lies the danger. This particular one, not so much. Edited April 3, 2023 by The Barbarian 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Barbarian Posted April 3, 2023 Group: Royal Member Followers: 3 Topic Count: 27 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 5,082 Content Per Day: 0.67 Reputation: 974 Days Won: 0 Joined: 06/20/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted April 3, 2023 (edited) In the 1960s, Russian scientists were put to work trying to find a way to breed super soldiers. Total flop. But this was partially due to Stalin's outlawing Mendelian genetics and Darwinism, in a massive purge of science from which Russian biology is still trying to repair. China might indeed be thinking along the same lines, but with much better chances of succeeding. Still, things aren't as simple as we thought they might be a few decades ago. In 1970, Alvin Toffler wrote Future Shock, predicting among other things, the incipient ability of humankind to alter their own genetic characteristics. We're still stumbling around, just on the margin of even repairing genetic disorders. The other issue is that most genetic alterations that would make a better soldier would make a better human generally. Assuming that it didn't mess up something else in the body. One of the issues is that everything is connected to everything else and it's hard to predict what the consequences of altering specific DNA or adding new DNA might be Edited April 3, 2023 by The Barbarian 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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