What would you genetically change about humans to make them a better species?
Human beings are originally an animal belonging to the top, but because of the progress of the times, we increasingly want to surpass ourselves and surpass others. Use genetic modification to solve our dissatisfaction.
If one day we can have more powerful abilities than humans, we should see some strange creatures on the road. Everyone will be faster than the original one. Faster than a cheetah. Eyes are like a falcon. Computational mathematical ability. Faster than a computer, then everyone has the opportunity and ability. Will a world war among aliens happen one day?
Genetically Modified Humans? DNA Hacking, What it Means to be Human, The End of Sex.
Scientists have already genetically modified human embryos, our DNA is becoming as editable and hackable as other types of code, and the race in genetic engineering is moving at a furious pace. We recently interviewed Jamie Metzl, Ph.D., one of the world’s top futurists and geopolitical experts, on the coming genetic revolution and what we should be doing now to prepare.
Metzl is Senior Fellow of the Atlantic Council and serves on the World Health Organization’s expert advisory committee on developing global standards for human genome editing. He previously served on the U.S. National Security Council, on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and as a Human Rights Officer for the United Nations in Cambodia. (And yes, he is also an Ironman triathlete.) His latest book, Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity, explores the coming genetic revolution and the future of humanity.
There has been a lot of research into extending life with stem cell technology, but some of the most important factors for longevity can’t be reproduced in a lab. Do you think it’s really possible to hack longevity?
I definitely do think it’s possible to hack longevity. We’ve actually been doing it for a long time. If our goal is to continue to extend health and lifespan across the population, we should be doing all the things Dan describes in the blue zones he’s uncovered around the world. But even if we each live exactly like the most enlightened Okinawan, the longest we can hope to live with our current biology as is would be 122 — the longest-lived human life on record.
I think we’ll eventually be able to go well beyond that through the application of technology. Drugs like metformin, Rapamycin, and nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) are already extending healthspan in model organisms like mice. Scientists are showing how pruning senescent cells and managing cellular recycling pathways are slowing slow the aging process in these organisms. A crazy process called asynchronous parabiosis — cutting open and stitching together a young and old animal, usual mice — suggests that something in the plasma of the younger mice is making the older mice biologically younger. Technologies like these aren’t quite ready for full human deployment but many of them will be. As we unlock the genetic secrets of people who live particularly long and healthy lives, we’ll be able to select embryos for implantation during IVF that are genetically predisposed to those qualities. I gave a keynote on this topic at SXSW (video below) your readers might enjoy.
This article comes from: https://www.bluezones.com/2019/04/genetically-modified-humans-dna-hacking-what-it-means-to-be-human-the-end-of-sex/
summarize
Using genetic modification to make people live longer, but if a person is unhealthy, you have to let him live for ten or twenty years. It is very inhumane to me. Using genetic modification to make people prevent Alzheimer’s disease is like this. The research of the child is a good solution for human beings because once someone has a serious disease, the medical system will be affected.
In short, for me, as long as it can help humans, this kind of genetic modification is good, but if it is to destroy the structure of life, it is not good research and development.
