/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12341106
It's already kind of happening with tube babies, doctors can pre-screen eggs for likelihoods of certain diseases. I'm not an expert on the field (and I doubt anyone on 4chan is either). I'm more upset about augmentations; bionic eyes and limbs and such. Those are never going to be real because nobody will ever be stupid enough to put the botnet IN their bodies. I'm probably jinxing it though. Imagine in 2075 people who have "problematic" ideas suddenly have their Micro$oft™ bionic eyes go blind.

Didn't chinese scientists make a couple of twin girls immune to HIV by inserting some gene(s)?

>>12341133
Yeah, but that's just a single mutation. I think it also makes you smarter as well.

>>12341106

it's already been done

>>12341106
>Will genetically egineered people ever happen?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2019/02/21/137309/the-crispr-twins-had-their-brains-altered/
They already happened, expect more.

>>12341259
>>12341145
That's one mutation. Not the kind I was describing.

>>12341265
>We have already identified several thousand possible DNA alleles that we can modify to our benefit. We could modify the GRIN2B (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19838302)), the PDE4B (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=26272049)), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25225386 and the FOXP2 strain (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19838302)) to help our children to have more potential. Add modifications with TP53, CDKN2A, CTNNB1, NGF, MSTN, EPOR and APOE genes, and you got the basis for a healthy, fit and smart child. But it is true, that we need some 10 - 20 years to test it out, but as CRISPR is progressing and computer can simulate biological process ever better, I could imagine that in 15 -25 years, genetic modifications might be viable to support your child to not to have to worry about many issues we have to carry around.
>https://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3421

>>12341106
Just start a eugenics program and mate tall people together. Reproductive engineering is easy, don't overthink it.

>Yao had essentially been bred. Both his parents played basketball. His 6’2 [different height from Wikipedia -Razib] mother, Fang Fengdi, perhaps the tallest woman in China, had been married to an even taller man. She had served as a Red Guard during the height of the Cultural Revolution and had been an ardent Maoist. She enthusiastically participated in the glorious plan of the local government to use her and her husband to produce a sports superstar. The Shanghai authorities who encouraged the match had gone back several generations to ensure that size was embedded in the bloodline. The result was Yao, a baby behemoth who just kept getting bigger.
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/was-yao-ming-bred

>>12341817
This picture always cracked me up.

>>12341817
>>12342009
That`s what I am talking about.

>>12341817
>>12342009
It would suck to find the best seat in the movie theater, and then this big SOB comes along and sits right in front of you.

Expect them to arrive in the second quarter of this century.

>>12341106
hopefully not

>>12344211
Why not?

>>12341817
Too bad we can't stop stupid people from reproducing

>>12341106
Sort of, we can use viral gene editing to make long term alterations to our physiology, there is a YouTuber who used a virus to change his gene expression and become lactose tolerant for around 6months, they are also looking into editing the genes for myostatin(the inhibition of which would lead to increased muscular hyperplasia/hyper trophy) they have already had some success in rats

>>12341265
It`s the beginning. In time we will be able to modify 100k gene allells and add new synthetic ones.

because then everybody would be White.
Do you seriously think they’d allow that? NIGGER PLEASE

>>12349413
The first genetically engineered people are chinese though.

>>12341106
Yes.

>>12341141

yeah but technological assimilation by society is exponential,is initially slow and then in its last stages it accelerates massively

that girls have broken the point of no return

>tfw didn't get gentically engineered to have the megacock gene

>>12341106
Sure, but I doubt we'll last long after. The nihlism rotting society now is peanuts compared to what this - not to mention mind-machine interfacing - will bring.

yes, just not the way you think.

In an unexpected twist to the pursuit of "designer" offspring, the couple, who are both deaf, said they had wanted a child that would be like themselves. The four-month old boy is profoundly deaf in his left ear and has only residual hearing in his right.

Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough, both in their 30s, turned to a friend with five generations of deafness in his family after being turned away by a sperm bank which told them that donors with disabilities were screened out. \

Ms Duchesneau is no stranger to the debate on designer babies. She is a med ical ethics graduate from the University of Virginia and worked as an intern in the bioethics department at the National Institutes of Health.

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They also said they were part of a generation that viewed deafness not as a disability but as a cultural identity.
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"I think all of us recognise that deaf children can have perfectly wonderful lives," Alta Charo, a professor of law and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin said. "The question is whether the parents have violated the sacred duty of parenthood, which is to maximise to some reasonable degree the advantages available to their children. I'm loath to say it, but I think it's a shame to set limits on a child's potential."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/08/davidteather

>>12350380
Did they voluntary cripple their child?