Leading transplant expert says her team could put wombs in TRANS WOMEN

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[–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Why wouldn't it be possible to do that? If you can figure out how to do it for one cell in vitro, doing it for all cells in vivo is probably not that much more difficult. Doing it in vitro would involve computing a short sequence of cutting and pasting operations and figuring out a way to reduce the amount of errors in such cutting and pasting operations. An example of a cutting and pasting operation is CRISPR/Cas9. I think the record was in the hundreds of point mutations and back then it grew exponentially.

So, while it's not feasible to make this work in 5 years, if any Bezos type wealth really hated saidit, they could fund it until it does work.

There are no limitations, other than humanity being stupid on average. I think most of the advancements requires to get there will happen regardless (because greater control over genetics is valuable), so one day a guy in his garage will just announce that he replaced his Y with X chromosomes.

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    [–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

    I never said I wanted to do that, which makes the rest of your comment retarded.

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      [–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      Do you ever backup your statements with arguments?

      [–]hfxB0oyA 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

      Why wouldn't it be possible to do that?

      For the same reason you can't turn a Toyota into a Tesla without first melting it down.

      [–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

      That's a logical fallacy and not a proof of impossibility.

      You should demonstrate some unchangeable mechanism in the human body which makes this impossible. For example, I think it's probably possible to find some mechanism to completely disable the Y-chromosome, which would have the same effect as replacing the Y-chromosome with an X-chromosome. In car analogies that would be the same as pouring concrete over the gas pedal to make it impossible to move the car. The biotechnology required for just disabling a Y-chromosome in a single cell probably is less than 5 years away if it isn't literally an afternoon amount of work. In fact, based on my knowledge of biology I think I already identified a solution in less than 30 seconds to do that. For example, one could just replace all the start codons in the Y-chromosome with stop codons and no proteins will ever be created in the cell.

      If one would then combine such a method with a viral vector, you are essentially already there for a trans "medicine", which indeed is a horrible invention. Making the solution permanent would not require much more work.

      [–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      In fact, based on my knowledge of biology I think I already identified a solution in less than 30 seconds to do that.

      Then seriously, you should pursue that innovation. If you can do it, your family won't have to worry about money for several generations.

      [–]binaryblob 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I don't see how it would make money unless I had a database with people willing to pay for a real transition and enough funding with large pharmaceutical company contacts.

      Genetic engineering isn't even applied in the real world at scale, because apparently doctors just love to continue to have people suffering, because otherwise by now everyone with some disease involving point mutations would have been cured by now.

      Similarly, genetic enhancements have been identified to make people breathe more efficiently to make everyone a super athlete, but none of those innovations have been made available to the general public.

      Meanwhile, you are suggesting this would be the invention that is going to make money. Well, I don't think so.

      I likely won't have a family, so there is no point in accumulating money beyond my current assets. It turns out humanity hates people with excess intelligence.

      [–]Matterofprinciple 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      You gotta not say shit like this. The fact you could write that much on such a morally corrupt and disgusting concept shows real issues with your mind and soul- the sort that lead to aneurysm, stroke, seizure etc.

      [–]iamonlyoneman 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

      Most scientifically knowledgeable american

      [–]hfxB0oyA 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      There's nothing more common in this world than self-assessments of unrecognised genius.

      [–]Vulptex 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      I wish