The closest activity Idaho currently has to gene editing is potatoes and strawberries. However, Simplot previously obtained gene editing licensing rights in an agreement with DowDuPont. Just this year Simplot entered into another alliance with Plant Sciences Inc., a plant breeding company, for the same purposes. Technology for this gene editing in agriculture is the same as being used on humans. A video from 2015 has surfaced with Klaus Schwab talking about gene editing. He openly admits the 4th Industrial Revolution "changes you" with an impact "on your identity". It isn't possible to determine if this is a manipulated video or not, but the World Economic Forum (WEF) website certainly has no qualms about discussing gene editing, identifying it as part of its 4th Industrial Revolution, and it likely taking over biological evolution. Short for "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats", CRISPR-Cas9 is a genome editing tool used for editing genes. It can remove, add, or alter sections of a DNA sequence for changing human characteristics or disease. This mechanism is also used in bacteria to change the DNA in viruses to disable them. Currently, the Covid vaccine is being described as a form of gene therapy which can involve replacing a gene, adding genes, or turning genes off. With the Covid vaccine, mRNA is the technique being used and is described as "the DNA for one gene, can be transcribed into an mRNA molecule that will end up making one specific protein.", in this case, instructing them to create a SARS-CoV-2 spike protein for an immune response. Even the Bayer President admits that the Covid-19 vaccine is gene therapy. TALENs is another gene editing technology. According to the WEF, gene editing is "changing the world". CRISPR is not without risks, the editing tools can cut in the wrong spot with unknown consequences to the person. Along with this new technology there are "ethical" concerns, mostly centering around safety issues, but without any forethought on the evil of experimenting on human life.
Currently, two types of gene editing exist, "germline therapy and somatic therapy. Germline therapies change DNA in reproductive cells (like sperm and eggs). Changes to the DNA of reproductive cells are passed down from generation to generation. Somatic therapies, on the other hand, target non-reproductive cells, and changes made in these cells affect only the person who receives the gene therapy." So much for concern about ethics, the somatic therapy has been conducted on children. There are a couple of nice short videos in this WEF article. As stated in the Mammoth Biosciences video, this gene editing will expand to agriculture, food, environment, bioterrorism, and of course healthcare. But it is already being done in the agricultural and food sector. Jennifer Doudna, the narrator from Mammoth Biosciences, a WEF member, describes this revolution and the Mammoth website lead even states it's "Reading and writing the code of life." And it does raise the question, just who gets to decide on what will be written on the code of life? The one who controls the technology? Now the second video by Haoyi Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, People's Republic of China, is more detailed in how both Talens and CRISPR work and introduces another gene editing technique, Zinc Finger. More frightening is his discussion on how this gene editing has been experimented with by injecting it directly into a mouse embryo. He appropriately labels this as a "genetically modified animal" then moves his discussion about the ethical concerns for humans, giving an example of how it could work. There is active experimentation of the insertion of human DNA into a mouse. Both videos are worth listening to, and are short. According to another WEF article, From DIY editing to matchmaking by DNA: how human genomics is changing society, the business of human genomics is growing, some companies sell genetic information for research, and overlaps with other technologies such as blockchain, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. As usual this new field of technology will bring massive profits to those who participate. The European Commission released a report in 2019 on the Social, Legal and Ethical aspects of Human Genomics. Among other issues it discusses who buys and sells genetic data, anonymity and ownership of the data, use of artificial intelligence, and regulation of the industry. Then there is that pesky issue of ethics which is discussed. MITRE is heavily involved in the Covid response, but it is also involved in CRISPR. And in the interest of an emphasis on enhancing public health for safety, effectiveness and ethics, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends gene editing. If there was ever a reason to reject gene editing it would be the WHO recommending it and a military non-profit experiementing with it. All of this is a scary arena that certain technocrats and corporations have decided to force us into. For some with devastating diseases it might be a blessing. However, given how the world is operating now, any trust that this technology will only be used for treating disease is unlikely.
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