Comment on Team turns DNA into a rewritable hard drive

• ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All of it? That’s pretty much what viruses do to whatever they manage to infect.

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  • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So a virus can rewrite a cat in to a dog or a giraffe? You’re talking small changes over a long time. A 400TB drive that you can only change 800KB every century or so would be useless.

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    • ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      …no?

      I said the mechanism exists. Dna is rewritable by it’s very nature-which is what you had issue with: the DNA, not the the thing doing the writing.

      At no point did I imply that there’s something rewriting entire genomes.

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      • db2@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        OK buddy. I don’t think you’re being genuine here so I’m just going to block and move on.

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• silverneedle@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am unsure of the adjective’s meaning in this context…

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