It now appears that a system is being researched to use a computer to control a light that will react with a substance that can modify the coding of a cell. The computer information can be transmitted over something like the net or stored on a memory device. This does not require the many chemical steps of the present systems and increases both the targeting accuracy and removes many of the complicated steps and reduces both the time and cost of making such changes. It may also allow a hacker to modify a simple code to bypass all the existing biochemical safeguards. If you are going to look at anything, click on the last listing, Adverse Impacts of Food on Human Health. You will be at least exposed to the dangers that now exist and some hints of what might happen. This book was written in about 2002. While that dates it, it has also allowed some of the warnings to mature to the point that they can be can be studied. Our track record of controlling new tech is very bad. Both rouge states and individual groups have been able to access new technologies and create some very bad situations. This tech has at least the possibility of making a new self replicating weapon that could lead to an extinction level event. Government proposes new gene therapy workarounds GO: Generative Optogenetics | DARPA https://govtribe.com/file/governmen...df?recommendationType=similar_recommendations This paper give a very superficial overview of the present system of changing the information stored on a gene, In many ways the are using selected shot in a shotgun to break up the cell and then selecting the fragments that they want to keep. Tools are used to break up the dna and then selected dna is spliced into the break. Genetic Modification Techniques and Applications We are just looking at the first baby steps of biochemical and genetic modification changes' we have no concept of the changes possible with data centers and AI modifying our information stream and with these possible new techniques, perhaps even modifying our biosphere and that includes us. Makes saving the trees a kind minor worry in the long run of things. This is an older book and in many ways obsolete. but one I read a while back and was simple enough to understand and that at least discuses some of the dangers in modifying our genetic structures. Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods - NCBI Bookshelf If you want to look at it, Chapter 5, Adverse impacts of Food on Human Health is the best. It is a brief description of how foods and their diseases etc react with our health. Adverse Impacts of Food on Human Health - Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods - NCBI Bookshelf
