ok, so human endogenous retrovirus (herv) shows that the human genome is not quite as closed as Id thought. 8% of human genetic material is garbled, deactivated retrovirus code from ages ago. Its not totally obsolete, for ex a protein in the placenta actually uses herv code. (its a feature, not a bug) I just wonder, what if you just cleaned out all the crap.. would that even develop into a healthy human? Is it ethical to even make that experiment if we technically were able to? What if the outcome was undesirable? (a perpetually irritable hermaphrodite with 5 arms and a tentacle that reproduces every 17 minutes, and hates fun)
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 06:42:44 +0000
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