That is one amazing bug. That way of building chromosomes sounds like one of those rare cases when evolution actually does have a direction--a mutation that confers extra resistance to mutation would tend to be a one-way street.
It sounds to me like taking advantage of radiodurans involves more than local gene splicing to introduce a specific trait. What it does sounds more like a fundamentally new way of organizing a cell, a change in "design philosophy" like eukaryotic life, if not quite so radical in scope. Toroidal DNA...what will Ma Nature think of next?
As attractive as the benefits would seem to be, I might be inclined to hold off on this one until we've worked out more pedestrian and local genetic engineering reliably. This is messin' with a fundamental. Be careful, Dr. Frankenstein.
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- Neo Nazi throwbacks outnumbered by sentient humans at rally
- The only thing that keeps 'em alive is the folks who protest them.
- this image should be publicized ..
- I imagine the other fist is holding a hammer and sickle. (n/t)
- The Nazi's might as well have been Communists.
- that doesn't even deserve a real response, you miserable Neo-Nazi cretin
- So the Americans that stomped the trash regime you worship into the mud were communists?
- BTW, it didn't look like an American sign to me.
- The means failed, the agenda did not.
- The agenda is fatally flawed.
- Recommended reading
- Actually...
- Order
- Social Darwinism, Creationism and "Intelligent Design", and other misunderstandings
- re: Order and constraints
- BTW...I don't have anything against genetic engineering of humans as a concept...
- Order
- PS
- Rocks Paper Scissors.
- The agenda is fatally flawed.
- Really?
- I imagine the other fist is holding a hammer and sickle. (n/t)
- Doesnt the fact that these morons are losing and dying out....