Will genetic engineering play a larger part in future warfare? If so, how will military units use it ?
Implementing genetic engineering
Nolan Howard
Kayden Green
that's called bio warfare. and it makes nukes look like kiddie play in terms of how many people it would kill, so mutually assured destruction.
Michael Allen
Funny question, but would it be possible to create genetically-engineered/cloned creatures, like the BOWs in the resident evil games, then release them into a warzone, with simple orders and parameters programmed into their heads?
Logan Adams
You could engineer shot lived soldiers with myostatin inhibiting genes for increase muscle mass and accelerated muscle development
You could make them with immunity to certain diseases by modifying RBC's as antibody carriers (a proven concept)
Select genes associated sleep cycles and exhausting prevention - they're also looked at genes involved metabolism of fat.
Carson Rogers
regarding biological weapons, show a few mobile genetic elements into an already nasty bacteria and you've god pan-drug resistance nicely packaged away as a integron it can then share with other species of bacteria too.
The benefit of using bacteria (heavily modified for maximum effect, naturally) is that you can then blast the affected zone with a targeted bacteriophage afterwards, and inject your soldiers with that bacteriophage pre-emptively so they can occupy the area.
Nathaniel Rodriguez
nope. also, why send a big living thing that can die to do what a virus will do (kill your target) for a fraction of the cost, and more efectively?
Elijah Martinez
except they've never done editing in vitro and can't guarantee 100% extent of reaction needed to make sure that the subject's own immune system doesn't kill him.
Alexander Parker
I have often wondered if keratin producing skin calls could be engineered to express flakes of graphene or similar futuristic materials. You'd think they'd be able to find / modify a protein that normally works with carbon rings (which are prolific in biology) and turn them into graphene sheets.
shove enough tiny flakes of graphene between keratin in the skin,m and you'd probably make the skin much more durable
Nicholas Barnes
or consider the following: an agent drops a small package containing your pathogen in a highly populated transit hub.
Josiah Rodriguez
we've editing many things in vivo. For example, the adenosine deaminase-severe combined immuno deficiency (ADA-SCID) was successfully treated via long terminal repeat (LTR)-regulated gammaretroviral vectors to correct a genetic issue that caused the disorder.
Xavier Reyes
read here for many successful gene editing trials
Jayden Green
Ethan Jackson
>Retroviral
>editing
confirmed for no idea what you are talking about. this just produces a copy of a gene to be expressed in the cell. the original gene is still expressed. this is more of a "out-compete the wild type" approach than an "edit the genome" approach.
Elijah Green
A weapon to surpass Metal Gear!
Caleb Wright
Although still in preclinical development, proof‐of‐principle for the use of nonhomologous end‐joining to correct a pathogenic splice‐site mutation has been reported for congenital muscular dystrophy type 1A in mice106 and may ultimately replace the use of oligonucleotide‐induced exon skipping in some cases. Further refinements, such as the identification of alternate nucleases with reduced off‐target effects, are already showing potential for gene therapy applications107, 108; however, the ability for precise locus repair in sufficient cells for therapeutic benefit has placed demands on current technologies.
big thonk
Ethan Mitchell
No it probably won't. The process for doing it to an adult will be so cost exorbitant for such little benefit nobody will be able to afford it, it'll get scoffed at and the techniques and technology would probably get lost. If it's done on kids they're going to be considered test subjects that are too valuable to lose in a risky conflict so they'd get put in command positions from the get go rather than anything else.
Asher Phillips
Bump
Nathaniel Rodriguez
Modifying viruses to target or exclude genes unique to specific ethnic groups.
Adam Thompson
Genetic engineering will inevitable lead to the death of humanity
Levi Scott
>how will military units use it ?
Catgirls on the frontlines. Come on, user. How is it not obvious?
define humanity and prove it
Leo Nelson
Every great species is its own selector, genetic engineering will give away our power of selection to an outside force, the computer. We will become to the computer what a dog, sheep or cow is to us but multiplied several times over.
Eli Smith
>Walk into thread thinking my Masters degree will finally come in handy
>All other anons are already discussing in depth techniques
Damn son, when did y'all get so smart
Ian Martin
Some of us also have degrees. M.Sc biotech, halfway through masters medical biotech
Noah Clark
I read this in Dr. Strangelove's voice.
Isaac Smith
Working on my M.Sc. in biomedicine right now.
Do you think the recent chinese Crispr kids are genuine?
Carson Bell
I recon there's a chance of it. I also think that (if the reporting is accurate and genuine) it'll be interesting to see if it works, and whether there are indeed any off target effects
Robert Jenkins
Lmao we learn things on the internet. Imaginary awards are not required for knowledge.
You went into debt for nothing!
Aiden Stewart
>Debt
Lmao, my tuition is 240 Euros for six months, I make that in two weeks of part time work
I'm convinced those kids will be riddled with cancers by the time they are three years old if the recent papers on untargeted mutagenesis of Cas9 are correct
Adrian Price
You get a degree because employers require actual proof of knowledge. Rock up to a pharma company and say you went to the college of google and try to get a job, see how it goes.
Also, the countless lab hours and hands on experience. I could never work where I do not (cell culture system design / testing) if i'd not done labwork with human tissues, and I guarantee you no one without a degree gets to do that.
Brandon Cooper
lmao whatever fag, enjoy working at starbucks with your faggy degree
Meanwhile I'm learning everything I need to know for free on youtube and pubmed.
Gabriel Brown
What percentage of your income do you pay in taxes?
Henry Brown
And all that knowledge will get you no-where unless you can prove it to an employer.
FYI, also not in massive dept cos I'm also not in the stupid american system
Matthew Richardson
None, since I'm a student and make less than the amount necessary to pay taxes.
Samuel Morris
That's the primary reason I doubt anyone will adopt the process for children. If you're going to have a kid it's going to turn out as a kid. If you start modifying it and changing it, it's not your kid anymore. It's an adoption.
Jordan Russell
>Live in the US
>Pay more Taxes than Germany
>Still have to pay tuition and healthcare
bbc.com
The absolute state of amerilards
Logan Sanchez
Reporting with MS Chemical Engineering,, 'sup breh?
Wyatt Cooper
Current social engineering shames people for stating the obvious truth that their kids being their biological offspring matters.
Jackson Martin
And people wonder why there are so many ancaps here