I notice I feel some opposition to this, mostly on the grounds that messing with nature tends to end rather poorly for us.
Human lifespan is a lot longer since we started messing with nature, it’s on average going well for us.
A transposon that moves to a species that has no defenses against it can already create a gene drive that wipes out a species in a natural way.
In the wild, we have ecosystems made out of very many species so that eliminating a single one does not wipe out all life on earth.
Human lifespan is a lot longer since we started messing with nature, it’s on average going well for us.
A transposon that moves to a species that has no defenses against it can already create a gene drive that wipes out a species in a natural way.
In the wild, we have ecosystems made out of very many species so that eliminating a single one does not wipe out all life on earth.