…But the key technologies involved — CRISPR, mRNA and big data/machine learning — are improving at such a rate that I would be amazed if this doesn’t become affordable and effective within a few decades…
Far too conservative. Likely under a decade. Decade and a half tops. And unlike, say nuclear technology, with CRISPR type techs both the underlying science and the manipulation technologies are much simpler so likely to be widely accessible, and the costs will plummet very quickly. I can imagine CRISPR type home-kits on sale everywhere, cheap as chips (both the potato and silicon varieties), within a decade. And because of all that, totally unpoliceable and unregulatable of course.
Johann Strauss
2 years ago
Could you explain to us what CRISPR has to do with the current SARS-CoV2 mRNA vaccines. Apart from the fact that the concept of mRNA vaccines has been around for 2 decades, I really don’t see any connection of the vaccines to CRISPR. The two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another. The purpose of CRISPR technology is to be able to carry out gene editing (i.e. alter chromosomal DNA.
oh blast I think you’re right – let me look into it: I’d got it in my head they made the DNA plasmids with it, but actually I think I’d got confused with other RNA therapeutics (the ones mentioned in here https://time.com/5927342/mrna-covid-vaccine/)
(edited because it automatically asterisked out a mild swearword so I replaced it with “blast” rather than leave the asterisks)
Talking of mRNA vaccines, do you know anything about the recent ‘discovery’ that the spike protein has been found not to stay in the muscle, but has migrated to organs? Gulp….
Bret Weinstein, the one interviewed by Freddy, has hundreds of Youtubes, several include this, although now he is banished to some other Media as he is very Vax dodgy, will not take it, nor will his family, and on Social Media this is apostasy. .
He gives this as a big thing, but really the whole benefit/cost is what he worries about. He is a Pro Masker, so fundamentally unsound to my thinking, but on other matters covid is a rebel. (He is an evolutionary Biologist, and so I am very biased against his whole cosmology as I do not like that pseudo-science – but is engaging and soothing to listen to.)
(I refused the mask, even under great pressure, and I refuse the vaccine….so am one of those loons)
Bret Weinstein sits unmasked indoors in studios with other people without masks. I have seen many of his podcasts and agree with all… haven’t seen anything about masks but if he is a champion I would disagree.
Far too conservative. Likely under a decade. Decade and a half tops. And unlike, say nuclear technology, with CRISPR type techs both the underlying science and the manipulation technologies are much simpler so likely to be widely accessible, and the costs will plummet very quickly. I can imagine CRISPR type home-kits on sale everywhere, cheap as chips (both the potato and silicon varieties), within a decade. And because of all that, totally unpoliceable and unregulatable of course.
Could you explain to us what CRISPR has to do with the current SARS-CoV2 mRNA vaccines. Apart from the fact that the concept of mRNA vaccines has been around for 2 decades, I really don’t see any connection of the vaccines to CRISPR. The two things have absolutely nothing to do with one another. The purpose of CRISPR technology is to be able to carry out gene editing (i.e. alter chromosomal DNA.
oh blast I think you’re right – let me look into it: I’d got it in my head they made the DNA plasmids with it, but actually I think I’d got confused with other RNA therapeutics (the ones mentioned in here https://time.com/5927342/mrna-covid-vaccine/)
(edited because it automatically asterisked out a mild swearword so I replaced it with “blast” rather than leave the asterisks)
Talking of mRNA vaccines, do you know anything about the recent ‘discovery’ that the spike protein has been found not to stay in the muscle, but has migrated to organs? Gulp….
Bret Weinstein, the one interviewed by Freddy, has hundreds of Youtubes, several include this, although now he is banished to some other Media as he is very Vax dodgy, will not take it, nor will his family, and on Social Media this is apostasy. .
He gives this as a big thing, but really the whole benefit/cost is what he worries about. He is a Pro Masker, so fundamentally unsound to my thinking, but on other matters covid is a rebel. (He is an evolutionary Biologist, and so I am very biased against his whole cosmology as I do not like that pseudo-science – but is engaging and soothing to listen to.)
(I refused the mask, even under great pressure, and I refuse the vaccine….so am one of those loons)
Bret Weinstein sits unmasked indoors in studios with other people without masks. I have seen many of his podcasts and agree with all… haven’t seen anything about masks but if he is a champion I would disagree.
What’s the pseudo science – evolution or biology?
Lesley, As far as I know it’s been found in almost every organ of the body.
thats all well and good Tom but how exactly does this help us have sex with horses?
The work of Satan. Messing with ones DNA is not something I believe in.