Transform Phages
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Transform Phages
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 Research Cost: 10000
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| Genetic engineers create biological machines that can edit a living human's genome. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| With the majority of diseases and genetic disorders now preventable and even correctable thanks to recent developments in predictive genetics, our intentions now turn towards something more ambitious - biologically repairing a human body. Bacteriophages have long been used to treat bacterial infections, but it is how they achieve this that makes them so valuable: they inject DNA directly into a bacterial cell, thus rewriting its genetic identity. But what if we could further 'program' synthetic phages to carry other types of DNA, and to target specific human cells? We need wonder no longer. For now, the focus is on correcting genetic-level problems on the fly, in a live subject - baby steps towards altering the very information that makes us, us. The ultimate potential of phage-based gene-editing ranges from simple transformations in appearance to the building of more and stronger muscle material, more durable organs, and even the ability to adapt alien genetic material into our own bodies. Eventually, we shall make the human body not simply more long-lasting, but better in every conceivable way. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Designer Life Forms • Genies | (50%)Onboarding Transform Injections • (40%)Rapid Distillation Techniques • (100%)Space Hospital • (100%)Pherocyte Inoculations • (40%)DNA Repairs | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Environment priority now allows nations to decontaminate regions that suffered a nuclear attack | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| "I was born with two club feet. For this reason, playground games were impossible for me. So instead, I read and read and read. Though they cause me daily pain, I treasure these warped feet of mine. They made me everything I am today." Chancellor Li Qingzhao, The Academy Lecture at Xi'an Jiaotong University | |||||||||||||||||||||
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