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It's really amazing that humanity is at the stage where we're intentionally evading our own immunity to bacterial components so we can repurpose the components to help ourselves.

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I know right. I also just came from an article that had to use an electron microscope to photograph the accelerometer in our phones. I never realised how small things have gotten.

"iPhones are allergic to helium"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18340693

What if it’s actually just time travelers coming back to code the immunity into us to protect us from the unintended consequences of gene hacking?

(This is a joke, in case that needs clarifying)

It's already like hacking some alien computer in a short amount of time :)

There's got to be a great scifi story in there somewhere.

This is the plot of the Trunks storyline in Dragon Ball Z.

but it's a bit sad that it can't intentionally help it to handle cancer.

Yet.

By the way, "cancer" is a class of diseases, not a single disease to treat, and many of them currently have CRISPR-derived treatments being actively developed.

Looking forward to the days that even the worst kinds of cancerous tissues would be a drug or two away from complete destruction. I hope that at one point, when someone asks about what would happen if a single maintainer of a project gets cancer tomorrow or gets hit by a bus, the answer would be, "well she/he can take a pill, and, what is this 'bus' thing you oldies keep joking about anyway?" :)

Cancer is my worst fear and has also killed so many of my family and loved ones. It's a slow painful death where you get progressively weaker. I really do hope there is some light at the end of the tunnel there.

I'm no expert. Do you believe it's just a question of time ?

Well, the experts do at least.

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