That, or "a totalitarian regime engineering an army of modified super soldiers". I know they're a liberal pop science channel that make condensed and easily digestable content intended for all ages, but come on
That, or "a totalitarian regime engineering an army of modified super soldiers". I know they're a liberal pop science channel that make condensed and easily digestable content intended for all ages, but come on
A biocorp is a lot more likely to fuck up gene editing than North Korea; people with a capacity for evil don't all live in a foreign country and go mwahahahhaa
I don't mean to get too contrarian but an epic le science guy in his garage giving his wife and children cancer is more my concern than either of those in terms of humans. The biocorp is more a problem for creating IP crops and livestock that will wreck agriculture forever, but we can barely get decades old gene therapy and stem cell research off the ground with the religious right.
don't forget medicine. technology like this allows us to induce plants, animals, bacteria, etc to produce medicine for us, which will inevitably get patented and screw over the people who need the drugs.
That already happens. Insulin is made with genetically modified yeast bacteria and the genes get patented so these companies can charge exorbitant prices.
That’s true but the nice thing about that is there are many solutions to the same problem (different gene pathway actors, unpatented orthologs, different vector designs) which generally won’t hold up to ip law in court. It’s also not captured like copyright so generics are much easier to provide after a few years. The main issue there is educating the doctors against the pharma company’s paid marketers to benefit the patient.
You're not being too contrarian, that's a perfectly valid and good addition to the conversation!