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https://web.archive.org/web/20250520091052/https://newatlas.com/biology/worlds-first-gene-edited-spider-produces-red-fluorescent-silk/

Some spooky thoughts about it also there are already glow in a dark domestic flowers, and myself using florescent tape

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

I see no way this could possibly go wrong.

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah, what if it bites someone. That could end up causing a mutation in them that gives them spider powers. Like some sort of man-spider that would be a menace to society.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

Man-spider, Man-spider, does whatever a man-spider does

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Produces red fluorescent silk?

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah but from his ass

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

No, he just looks horrifying. That's it. Terrifyingly ugly man-spider thing. That's his superpower.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

In this timeline there's no way Spider-Man isn't a billionaire super villain.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Look I wish we were at the point where we could make unspeakable horrors even if only on accidents, it would make the field I am studying a lot lot lot more fun!

Gene editing is rllllly not scawy if you look into it, only the same folks rage against it who fear wind turbines and deny global warming

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Wind turbines are huge and scary. Imagine it falls on your head?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yes very realistic fear! Tell me Jonny Cockblock, how would you get close enough for it to fall on your head before you get sucked into its spinny thing and get blended?

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I thought you would ask why I called you Jonny Cockblock…😭😭😭

I would have said because you cockblocked me from ur mam 😭😭😭

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Those computers with neurons are hard at work

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Man-made horrors.

The CL1 computer is the first in the world that combines human neurons with a silicon chip. It could be used in disease modeling and drug discovery before it expires after six months.

this post was submitted on 20 May 2025
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