• Gene Editing Makes Mice Cocaine-Proof
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https://www.technologynetworks.com/genomics/news/gene-editing-makes-mice-cocaine-proof-309605 What the fuck
This Cave Johnsson-level of science
What has science done?
"Why do you need two tons of pure cocaine?" "To test it on mice of course"
This is the worst science news in quite some time. My sympathies are with the mice.
Treating drug addiction and creating overdose immunity via gene therapy? Holy shit we're entering the future.
Find a way to make something cocaine proof and someone will design better cocaine.
Oh great, now we're gonna get people smuggling cocaine in mice.
Future cocaine arms race
this is actually a great thing, the cartels have way too much money and influence of course, they'll pour that money into creating other drugs as said above, but it might be the start of the end. theoretically i can see businesses making having a crispr gene like this a requirement (probably after someone sues a fund for losing all their money on a coked-up trade)
imagine a world that is the opposite of 1984, where everybody has been genetically engineered to be immune to all highs, the war on drugs is won not by elimination of the drugs but through elimination of the fun.
Imagine making somone immune to the effects of dangerous drugs as part of volantary drug treatment programs.
That‘s not even absurd in science.
Scientists tryna find a way to deny us the glory of Slaanesh THIS SHALL NOT STAND
You could always become a Dark Eldar instead.
and then the doctor would inform you that you are now immune to jumping off roofs also.
Shoo shoo xeno scum
Just smoke weed instead.
What do you mean shoo shoo? Am I supposed to sit in this flesh laboratory making a Christmas tree out of ogre dicks all by myself? If someone designed even stronger crack, would it be called hole?
Good idea? What the fuck people
There are plenty of benefits to being sober and alive, such as being able to accurately drive metal boxes and walk in a straight line.
Super Crack(tm)
I'm not convinced being a coke addict is fun..
ya but imagine if beer or even coffee didn't do anything to you.
Coming soon, Everyone is given gene therapy to make people immune to dopamine, and you pay money to get a drug that suppresses the dopamine suppressor temporarily
Only if it has a mod that makes it progressively more disturbing by having a monster who gradually stalks you and eventually triggers a terrifying screamer when you do not expect it.
Wasnt this literally a thing in Neuromancer where the dude was a drug addict and his employers made him drug-resistant for the duration of his contract so that he cant fuck himself over
Yeah, though instead of directly editing his genes IIRC they gave him a new, designer liver that pretty much instantly rips the drugs from his bloodstream. As others on this thread have suggested, eventually he just found better drugs. At least before he got said liver replaced with a normal one when the contract was done.
in a world where everybody is an avant garde figurative zombie, one man/woman/child stands apart. this summer, he/she/they will fight the system to change the rules, to crack the code and change the mode in Gene's Theropy
Starring Danny Devito as a woman a man and a child simultaneously, rated PG-96
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