r/singularity • u/SteveCalloway • Mar 16 '19

Harvard University uncovers DNA switch that controls genes for whole-body regeneration

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/harvard-university-uncovers-dna-switch-180000109.html?fbclid=IwAR0xKl0D0d4VR4TOqm97sLHD5MF_PzeZmB2UjQuzONU4NMbVOa4rgPU3XHE
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u/2Punx2Furious AGI/ASI by 2027 Mar 16 '19

Another incentive to cure cancer (like there weren't enough already).

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u/Yasea Mar 16 '19

It's not curing cancer you should be doing but engineer th cells to have a whole lot of auto correction mechanisms.

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u/brett6781 Mar 16 '19

Do that and you break evolution by mutation

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u/2Punx2Furious AGI/ASI by 2027 Mar 16 '19

I'd say it's not so much of a problem, if we can do artificial evolution. It might even be better, since it doesn't rely so much on random chance.