30 years and those monkeys with rocks still haven't figured out how to do it because what they are messing with is not a simple bit of coding. It's the framework upon which all is built. One minor, unaccounted for flaw in their design and the very foundation of our design comes undone. At the very least, this means cell death because it didn't work, the next step up on bad to worst, cancer.
Either they don't understand or they don't care, you cannot simply rewrite RNA like DNA, it's not the same thing and messing with DNA is already dangerous enough. We are probably 50 years from RNA altering technology at our current rate of development.
It doesn't have to be applied via direct injection. We already use genetically engineered yeast to produce some drugs. This could streamline that process and make it even easier.
But that's ignoring the problem that I pointed out. We are still trying to understand how genes work in DNA, let alone how RNA works. Until recently, they believed by just shutting off genes that cause problems, they would solve things like serious diseases. But you can't just shut off a gene, it's interconnected, the same goes for activating a dormant gene. For some diseases, yes, the risk is worth the effort, but for some, we need to know more before doing it.
A broader example is this, scientist thought for decades there was junk DNA, that it was leftovers from either things we encountered in the past or was no longer needed because we adapted beyond its need. Now, they are finding that genes in the 'junk' are actually regulators, activators, etc. No one gene works alone, that's why they can't find the 'gay gene'.
It isn't how the mRNA tech is applied, at least, not completely, it's that the tech isn't ready to be used. They are still at the earliest stages of understanding and these idiots deployed it all the same. We are still in the Madam Curie dying from Radium exposure because she doesn't understand radioactivity.
The tech is further along than you think. There are people posting youtube videos where they cultivate bacteria to make different colored fluorescent proteins. Hobbyists playing with mRNA technology! There clearly are applications to this tech that can be used today. But human injection clearly needs more testing. And more importantly: An extremely transparent process so there can be no question what's in it. Something I doubt we'll ever have.
That's child's play. Adding this, adding that to make things like glowing bacteria. They are simple organisms whose development from beginning to adult form, is infinitely simple compared to our own.
I can almost guarantee you there are horrid mutations in the labs of these scientists. Not like the Ripley mutations in Alien 4, but things like headless fetuses where it didn't develop because they accidentally altered the gene sequence that was supposed to trigger its formation with their bumbling about.
What worries me is not that there might be something simple like cancers caused by their rushed tech. Viruses altering our cells have been the cause of cancers since the time of dinosaurs and maybe a lot earlier. (Maybe the cause of cancer period through their left behind remnants in DNA?) What worries is me is that by altering our RNA, they maybe creating a new disorder, like maybe a protein deficiency disorder that causes our cells to shutdown or something like diabetes. In 20 years, we might have had answers to these fears from lab studies, but now, we'll have answers on a massive scale that only conspiracy theorists will be correct about since the government will never admit this was rushed and stupid.
30 years and those monkeys with rocks still haven't figured out how to do it because what they are messing with is not a simple bit of coding. It's the framework upon which all is built. One minor, unaccounted for flaw in their design and the very foundation of our design comes undone. At the very least, this means cell death because it didn't work, the next step up on bad to worst, cancer.
Either they don't understand or they don't care, you cannot simply rewrite RNA like DNA, it's not the same thing and messing with DNA is already dangerous enough. We are probably 50 years from RNA altering technology at our current rate of development.
It doesn't have to be applied via direct injection. We already use genetically engineered yeast to produce some drugs. This could streamline that process and make it even easier.
But that's ignoring the problem that I pointed out. We are still trying to understand how genes work in DNA, let alone how RNA works. Until recently, they believed by just shutting off genes that cause problems, they would solve things like serious diseases. But you can't just shut off a gene, it's interconnected, the same goes for activating a dormant gene. For some diseases, yes, the risk is worth the effort, but for some, we need to know more before doing it.
A broader example is this, scientist thought for decades there was junk DNA, that it was leftovers from either things we encountered in the past or was no longer needed because we adapted beyond its need. Now, they are finding that genes in the 'junk' are actually regulators, activators, etc. No one gene works alone, that's why they can't find the 'gay gene'.
It isn't how the mRNA tech is applied, at least, not completely, it's that the tech isn't ready to be used. They are still at the earliest stages of understanding and these idiots deployed it all the same. We are still in the Madam Curie dying from Radium exposure because she doesn't understand radioactivity.
The tech is further along than you think. There are people posting youtube videos where they cultivate bacteria to make different colored fluorescent proteins. Hobbyists playing with mRNA technology! There clearly are applications to this tech that can be used today. But human injection clearly needs more testing. And more importantly: An extremely transparent process so there can be no question what's in it. Something I doubt we'll ever have.
That's child's play. Adding this, adding that to make things like glowing bacteria. They are simple organisms whose development from beginning to adult form, is infinitely simple compared to our own.
I can almost guarantee you there are horrid mutations in the labs of these scientists. Not like the Ripley mutations in Alien 4, but things like headless fetuses where it didn't develop because they accidentally altered the gene sequence that was supposed to trigger its formation with their bumbling about.
What worries me is not that there might be something simple like cancers caused by their rushed tech. Viruses altering our cells have been the cause of cancers since the time of dinosaurs and maybe a lot earlier. (Maybe the cause of cancer period through their left behind remnants in DNA?) What worries is me is that by altering our RNA, they maybe creating a new disorder, like maybe a protein deficiency disorder that causes our cells to shutdown or something like diabetes. In 20 years, we might have had answers to these fears from lab studies, but now, we'll have answers on a massive scale that only conspiracy theorists will be correct about since the government will never admit this was rushed and stupid.