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Spent 2 hours today explaining basic DNA stuff to my mom.Now she understands how changing your diet doesn't change your genes, and how curing stuff doesn't make the genes go away.She immediately had much more intelligent questions about CRISPR. Oh no.https://t.co/nWTadgOLF7
Explaining DNA Ploidy to my mom:Yay, she now understands why ants are so weird, and why it's called '23andMe'But somewhat awkward was explaining Kleinfelter, Turner's and Swyer syndrome, and Chromosome 2 (she doesn't believe Neanderthals existed.)https://t.co/mpR3eIQwSm
Thought she took to the idea that the discovery of DNA has basically written out some major contributors, and she was already Familiar with X-rays, so using Crystallography to 'see the shape' was simple.https://t.co/MN0xkHlVXb
I'm thinking if we can get her gene test thru 23andMe, I'll suggest going with the ancestry one. That is primarily what she's interested in, and neanderthal gene report my make her sketched out. For my health research all I really need is raw gene data anyway.
I can only predict half genes from my own test, and when I don't have an identical pair, I can't really tell which came from her. The only one I can be reasonably confident about is 'x' given there a astronomically high chance it didn't come from my dad.https://t.co/GJNYqllZHG
That gives me an idea. I should have her watch southpark.https://t.co/8tghcaKr3C
Also, why does that show have so much humor over genetics and evolution?Makes me wonder about Matt/Trey and their influences. Has anybody written a biography of the two yet?Heh, Trey's first name is 'Randolph', and is currently CEO of "Furry Balls, inc"
Ah, I get it now. Southpark is art imitating life? https://t.co/UK6mrgE8rZ https://t.co/notLyngqQS
"We can't go around saving every form of life anymore than we can kill them all"https://t.co/gjy1vqT80x
"in this way, disease causing mutation can be corrected"https://t.co/bOkpwHKzxn
"Keep in mind, this child is still you - simply the best of you. You could conceive naturally a thousand times, and never get such a result."https://t.co/xpebIGi230
"What is CRISPR?"https://t.co/95jnxX8n6X
Oooh, neat. Kurzgesagt has a video on designer babies.https://t.co/v8Secc95Xw
BTW, if you want a more in depth overview of DNA stuff, The MCAT test prep track on @khanacademy is quite good.The overview of "Applications of DNA technologies" is worth watching https://t.co/J7ACqZRjT7 (or via their site https://t.co/AQmc5yyZ74 which also has good comments.)
"the high cost of sexed semen is the fact that a single US company holds the patents for the most advanced and trustworthy sorting technology. Sexing Technologies (ST Genetics), legally registered as Inguran LLC, has a monopoly over the sexed semen market"https://t.co/MYAxDC29Xm
How long until we have mail-order babies as a service?https://t.co/QlDqhGkpjQhttps://t.co/yvDvBik6Ek
IVF in dogs... 2015https://t.co/rScykNAaMzhttps://t.co/kacRGAGdZH
I think a lot about how ants control gender by selective fertilization, and how alligator mound's internal temperature affects gender expression thru action on the TRPV4 gene and it's impact in the gonads.https://t.co/kkprnZvqsuhttps://t.co/6y5n09nKkr
@37point78 The chart in the lower right is particularly interesting.The link to this with mTOR is"TRPV1 caused an increase in intracellular calcium concentrations ([Ca2+]i) and that this activated mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) and promoted muscle hypertrophy" https://t.co/iX4tLDcwr8
If I figure out how to change gender expression by impacting gut microbiota immune profile of mother during gestation, I'm not going to tell anybody, because people will use it to disrupt delicate gender balances that ensure survival against entropy.https://t.co/p3FjS1mItq
"the high cost of sexed semen is the fact that a single US company holds the patents for the most advanced and trustworthy sorting technology. Sexing Technologies (ST Genetics), legally registered as Inguran LLC, has a monopoly over the sexed semen market"https://t.co/MYAxDC29Xm
Someone else is going to figure it out anyway because there is a market for it.And... oh would you look at that it's already being explored.https://t.co/Zl7riQpgpO
Whelp. Time to figure out how to fight a plague of mosquitoes carying bacteria that are gene-drive engineered in a way to bias the population to be all girls.https://t.co/sKLrZtazVk
Are you rich? Fed years of Malthusian concepts sprinkled w/ ideas of elite over production? Do you want to control the reproductive nature of a species thru centralized control & manipulation of genome to fight climate change + food scarcity? Great news!https://t.co/KH8EdPj6ID
"Gene drives could be used to benefit public health, the environment, agriculture, and animal well-being. However, real-world use may incur ecological risks, and even research involving self-propagating gene drive systems may risk public trust in science"https://t.co/Ftui5Tu22j
Immanentize the eschaton, today!I'm sure it won't end up with a species destroying grey-goo scenerio.https://t.co/PtaRiigo18
I'm sorry I am not fast enough.https://t.co/SSYtHJ9EVv
Please, you must understand how you are wrong.https://t.co/HpgEOEdq5x
Please, you must understand.https://t.co/bQ3B4Hl16T
Do you ever wake up and have your phone's news program show you articles telling you that you're right?https://t.co/bLU1XcDGvn
I'm not crazy at all >.>https://t.co/n94AKNRhHx
I fixed my girlfriends menstrual cycle.I don't even want children, lol.https://t.co/NlGKLil5RY
People don't think shitposting be like it is, but it do.https://t.co/9VEYSxS1bM
After the dog shit trial, I'm gonna aim toward bear shit. https://t.co/SVmsXt3caz
@fire__exit What you need is to find a female bear with only a minor psudopenis and eat their feces shortly before their hibernation, and only if your immune system is doing well enough that you don't lose your eyesight or ability to walk. It seems unwise in any case.https://t.co/yBRBKsQa8G
Do you ever spend an inordinate amount of time wondering about cat urine?https://t.co/eeg7C0hxL7
Or studying how abortion drugs impact schizophrenia and autism?https://t.co/c1oGR3Z6FA
I'm having success with a bunch of herbal stuff I found while exploring midwife history and traditional ways of dealing with irregular menstrual cycles. This matches up with weird findings about how Gensing & Black Cohosh also seem to reduce negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
Or studying the history of eugenics.https://t.co/lkviUKiodJ
You are all psyop'd. None of you are free of sin.https://t.co/NS7R6OiiEi
This whole space is full of fucked ideas. Stuff that is used to help induce abortions is also super important for having a healthy pregnancy. If you're against abortion medications, you're likely unknowingly against medications that help women have successful births. Its absurd.
It's perfectly safe...https://t.co/TWZdaQoS2J
Become ant. They said.https://t.co/YlYx2cCDMP
Ethical Exogenesis or Bust."Who actually gestates [...] the cloned animals? This may be the most serious problem with pet cloning. The cloned dogs and cats don’t simply materialize; they are “grown” in the body of a dog or cat who serves as a surrogate. https://t.co/9wUYMCmOZO
Pupate.https://t.co/TorWagHkTv
Have we made progress on external gestation? I know we've go that lamb thing we did. I think this is going to be more fundamentally life changing to our species than CRISPR'ing the gene line.We're slowly turning into a species of technological ants.https://t.co/puoo5aJDTJ
Did you know that the male hormone booster Nugenix is using an extract from a plant used for centuries to promote lactation?https://t.co/KtdnPvttbG
Ever wanna figure out how to lay eggs?https://t.co/Z8LndazJHF
This showed up on my YouTube recommendations today."poured a chicken egg into a glass, and put it into a special incubator"https://t.co/CfOvjAatvRhttps://t.co/RVPa3kBb0n
For sale: Muridae oocyte, never born."a two-part system that includes incubators, nutrients and a ventilation system. The mouse embryos are placed in glass vials inside incubators, where they float in a special nutrient fluid."https://t.co/tLB90DdyCahttps://t.co/pbtWsOcFb5
You can just look this stuff up. No one is stopping you.https://t.co/rYuH1XrAyg
Fly, you fools."The next step: cajole those induced stem cells to become eggs whose genetic makeup would match that of the patient."https://t.co/fq9KHwkrx8https://t.co/hm7GklBsC6 https://t.co/3wbiOFFhZZ
My only solace here is that 1) they probably can't actually do that 2) they're not actually starting with pets first and 3) oocyte generation is surprisingly hard.https://t.co/cXv57iY3w0
VCs are likely jumping the gun without knowlege in how this stuff works as they would be salivating over the captive market of*checks notes*the entire human specie.https://t.co/2CsbYOXszM
But at the same time, they seem to be able to do it. I see Sam Altman is a seed funder. Figures. https://t.co/0tYZeYiSMM
https://t.co/4cu93PahES https://t.co/Jurv7ByfSl
I nightmare of futures in which external pregnancy (ectogenisis) is required by law in order to minimize a child's chances of mental disorder; of course that mental disorder is defined by the state.In secret, the military uses that technology to raise clone armies in vats.
Let's see what the bones say about this. https://t.co/pmxxH6I7rJ
Reading the bones from 2019 to predict the future."We may one day grow babies outside the womb, but there are many things to consider first"https://t.co/MWjiYEPl5u
I'd rather regrow my dog's ovaries than have her cloned.https://t.co/9hYmXAOfFs
@vita_dao @longevityprize You guys keep focusing on drugs like that and i'm going to keep on being two steps ahead."mTOR Signaling as a Regulator of Hematopoietic Stem Cell Fate" [2021]https://t.co/HDI6bsRZeOI'm working on regenerating my dog's ovaries.https://t.co/BhejWSLyLi