genetic bound viral targets
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All on Tuesday, May 07, 2024 17:15:04
Some recent movies (Jason Bourne) have considered the possibility of using viruses to "viral in" some genetic code. In reality this is entirely possible but not necessarily the method that would be used. There is a superior technology called CRISPR Cas9 and its variants. It is now possible to seek out an arbitrary genetic sequence and re-sequence that genetic material to something introduced that is foreign. There are no limits on what can be done, it is a simple cut and paste mechanism for genetic code---cut out, paste in. From my understanding of it, its a type of protein molecule that used its re-sequencing ability to avoid foreign genetics from changing the virus by incorporating the attacking viral load into its own DNA. This would make it so that the foreign gene material would not attack the biological organism because it would detect its own DNA in the destination that it would otherwise attack. It's quite the trick that this organism plays on attacking biologicals, and it seems to work. It wasn't until these mechanisms were deeply thought about that it was realized that this same mechanism could allow any gene sequence to be replaced by any other gene sequence.
Instead of using CRISPR Cas9, it is possible to use viruses themselves to have a payload of foreign genetic material to replace normally occurring. That is what viruses just do. That is their function. So they can be used to do what viruses do, but the payload would be modified in a way that they inject mutagenic dna code to wipe out normal sequences, replacing them with arbitrary DNA code.
It's something to think about anyhow,
Cheers!
-warmfuzzy
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