Biologists, Scientists, Laymen: Will CRISPR-Cas9 be one of the most transformative discoveries in human history?

Agree with Kutcher. Just read how they have used crispr to eliminate HIV in mice.

https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/crispr-eliminates-hiv-in-live-animals/81254287

That required a viral vector for gene therapy to insert Cas9 and the gRNAs; gene therapy has been a putatively revolutionary tech for decades. While the CRISPR-Cas9 system makes it significantly easier to knock out genes in complex organisms relying on viral vectors for delivering the technology will make it less-than-revolutionary for decades to come. There needs to be some other advance or the CRISPR-Cas9 to move beyond editing-in-dish

Tame Elephant wrote:

Agree with Kutcher. Just read how they have used crispr to eliminate HIV in mice.

https://www.genengnews.com/gen-news-highlights/crispr-eliminates-hiv-in-live-animals/81254287

More like the END of human history. No longer subject to natural selection or evolution, people will get designed in a lab into an entirely new species. Rich people that is.

Everyone else will go on as before and when civilization collapses, their DNA will survive while all the GMO people will prove unfit for reasons nature knew but the scientists didn't.

Tame Elephant wrote:

Agree with Kutcher. Just read how they have used crispr to eliminate HIV in mice.

That is evil

Bad Wigins wrote:

More like the END of human history. No longer subject to natural selection or evolution, people will get designed in a lab into an entirely new species. Rich people that is.

Everyone else will go on as before and when civilization collapses, their DNA will survive while all the GMO people will prove unfit for reasons nature knew but the scientists didn't.

We're at least a hundred years from realistically the closest thing that will ever exist to what you just proposed. At least. Do you even know what a new species requires biologically? Moreso than "offspring infertile"?

Absolutely! Thanks to CRISPR men will have IQs in the 200 range, 15 inch dicks and an exoskelletor worth of muscles. Women will all be blonde, blue-eyed, big-titted and obedient, feminism will be erased from their genome forever.

The poor and inferior will be wiped off the map by diseases engineered especially for them. God-emperor Donald Trump will be cured from Alzheimer's and reign the world till at least 2100. World-population will be down to 2 billion and exclusively be white.

Good times!

You forgot to mention Donnie will get his hair back by then.

notasurprise wrote:

Bad Wigins wrote:

More like the END of human history. No longer subject to natural selection or evolution, people will get designed in a lab into an entirely new species. Rich people that is.

Everyone else will go on as before and when civilization collapses, their DNA will survive while all the GMO people will prove unfit for reasons nature knew but the scientists didn't.

We're at least a hundred years from realistically the closest thing that will ever exist to what you just proposed. At least. Do you even know what a new species requires biologically? Moreso than "offspring infertile"?

You're a pretentious snothead, yes I know what a species is, and 100 years is a blink of an eye when it comes to human history. Gene editing is the beginning of the end.