Comment Re:Wages (Score 3, Insightful) 75
When I want to point out to the kind of morons who post on the Internet, I'll tuck this post away.
When I want to point out to the kind of morons who post on the Internet, I'll tuck this post away.
Accurate statement: "Humans invented a way to harness CRISPR/Cas9 to create transgenic organisms"
Inaccurate statement: "Humans invented CRISPR/Cas9"
This isn't complicated.
Yup, the sad truth is that if you really want to save children, you need to ban parents.
If there were animals adeptly using fire long before humans existed, we would not call humans the first to "master fire" just because humans understood what they were doing.
Here is a list of all the animals besides humans who have mastered the use of CRISPR technology:
FYI, humans didn't invent CRISPR/Cas9 - bacteria and archaea did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR
It's an antiviral immune system. They bait bacteriophages into inserting their genes into noncoding regions of their genome, and then use CRISPR/Cas9 to match up anything from these noncoding regions that are in their coding regions, and to cut it out.
We humans stole that tech from them
One of the most fascinating aspects of H2O is the sheer number of forms it can take under different conditions.
//GO.SYSIN DD *, DOODAH, DOODAH