• Libb@piefed.social
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    12 days ago
    spoiler

    DNA doesn’t like being photocopied for many generations, as there is no such thing as a perfect photocopy, and this probably won’t end well for the mouse.

    Sad news for all our billionaires friends out there who were impatiently queuing to get their ticket for eternity, as this news means we’re not yet able to copy ourselves into an unlimited number of freshly cloned bodies. The good news being that all their money will buy them some real nice funerals, though.

    • MojoMcJojo@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      We can already “print” or synthesize proteins with bench-top devices. It’s only a matter of time before we can do that to DNA, and then embryos.

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        12 days ago

        We can already copy DNA with PCR (polymerase chain reaction), but creating it from scratch seems unnecessary. Embryos by comparison are infinitely more complex. We do have the technology to fertilize one egg with the genetic material of another, though, so maybe it’s not as far off as I’m imagining.

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          12 days ago

          Oh yeah, I forgot about PCR! That’s even easier than protein synthesis. I’m more worried about brain orginoids than clones at this point though. Clones are so 2000 and late 🫩

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip
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      12 days ago

      Stuff like this is why you should get uBlock Origin and default-block 3rd-party scripts and frames. You’ll get basically the site before accounting added the ad libraries.

      • BillyClark@piefed.social
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        12 days ago

        This reminded me to check if Voyager lets me use other apps to open websites, and it does. So I guess this will be the last time I see something like this. It’s under general settings, you can choose to open links in the default app.

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      12 days ago

      Apparently, some random website can tell, immediately, with zero time needed for scanning or analysis, that my phone is exactly 89% corrupt, whatever that means.

      I wonder how many people fall for this despite it being so obviously bullshit.

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    12 days ago

    That’s why the DNA for all my clones is meticulously transcribed by hand by the children in my sweatshops in Sri Lanka. They’re given every motivation to be accurate.

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    12 days ago

    I presume if you’re still using the original DNA it’s all good? Maybe not the deflating news for billionaires that we thought it was.

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        12 days ago

        It’s, “The 6th Day”. They’ll have a vile of your DNA, or be able to 3D print it, they’ll have a bunch of dummy bodies and then inject with DNA to churn out clones faster 😅

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    12 days ago

    So like copying a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy until the page is either blank, or completely black.