[ExI] CRISPR and Gene Drives

[Tara Maya]

Damn, that would be fun. Like one of those aquariums they sell for kids with all the creatures, but build them from the genes on up, and for a rather larger (but still possibly contained) area. Wouldn’t it be cool if your house or your office building had its own designer ecosystem, the way it currently has furnishing and artwork? 

The biodiversity of a planet filled with such pocket ecosystems would also skyrocket, undoing the current mass extinction’s decimation of biodiversity.

Tara Maya
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> On Nov 20, 2015, at 2:06 AM, Ben <bbenzai at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> Of course. This is why we need to learn to engineer not only genomes, but entire ecosystems and meta-ecosystems.