The Future Of Genetics

[livedandletdie]

4 armed humanoids, vampires, werewolves, Chtulhi, Unicorns and many other things could be created with genetics. Wait why is Lovecraft and the bible the source of all mythical beasts?

Porphyria could be a risk if a single mistake happens I mean It's just changing 2 enzymes in a specific gene, imagine that. The world is such a good place. Oh yes how about inserting that gene that makes one young again that immortal jellyfish have into humans and porphyria for your own vampire non-bloodsucking.

[livedandletdie]

03:25 Hulk is angry.

[IvanderHaisley]

1:24 ....... weird

[ndrthrdr1]

@whatyouchating said "Who the hell would dislike these videos???"

Those are mostly fake Dislikes from a vote bot (short for voting robot - a computer program used by people who want the public to think that science is generally thought to be untrustworthy).

Now, let's see ... who would benefit from a religious population who reject the science that disproves the Genesis myth?

Think "tithe". Click Like on these BestOfScience videos and plannedparenthood videos to dilute the vote bot effect!

[adrianopol92]

Did I just see an Omnitrix at 03:45 ?!

[commonman80]

This was a Wonderful series. The one thing that made me crack up was when the Doctor told the couple that they would be able to create a disease free child that would be "NEAR" GENIUS. That meant that NEITHER PARENT had the ability to produce a Genius child.

SO WHY ARE THEY WAISTING THEIR MONEY!!!

The Kid would still be vulnerable to those who are Equal to, or smarter than him or her.

AAAAAHHHHHH!!!!! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!

:-0

[WhoisJacqueFresco]

I guess he has his facts mixed up. The 1918 flu was not from Ebola, but bird viruses. Ebola is HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS AND DEADLY. The 1918 influenza created cytokine storm while Ebola affects your endothelial cells. You would rather die from the virus that attacks your immune system than Ebola.

[dingovory]

@WhoisJacqueFresco He was only naming various viruses. Just because he said ebola right before "1918 flu strand" doesn't mean he meant the flu came from ebola. How can you get flu from ebola anyway? Sure they have similar symptoms but the viruses are two different species. Ebola is ebola, flu is flu.

[chill4lyfe]

too bad we're probably going to blow ourselves the fuck up before all this

[LogenFelxon]

@SuperiorDeity We have a huge amount of wonders going on in our society and by that there is a huge chance that by making ourselves better we can create our own future as a brighter one, instead of a begrimed and exceedingly vacuous one.

[LogenFelxon]

Yes, I did in fact try to mislead you from your horribly written sentences to actually make some sense by trying to argue against your fatuous ramblings with some sort of compassion based climax. Seems to somehow have worked and no, I'm not talking about some compassionate mass extinction based on our own perspective on what's best for the individual. I'm talking about the fact that there is a huge amount of wonders going on in our society even if there's a lot of fucked up situations going on.

[LogenFelxon]

If you have concious choice in the matter of which dna build your child should have then you are creating a child not just making a child. If you chose to make your child a perfect one, it is probably better if we found out methods of doing it before they are born. Even though that will kinda make us as a parent and it would break the bond we would eventually form with our children pretty much in a few generations if this became known to the generations.

[LogenFelxon]

@SuperiorDeity O there's a lot of wonders within our society of broken things. Our society is based on a race to become the best at everything, best at tracking and sorting through information and making the information a part of you if it is relevant. This race has created many wonders of late, first it is the legends of old, then the more physical things like the pyramids and stuff like that.

But the best and most human in nature wonder there is: compassion.

[JaysThoughts]

Maybe scientists could create a voice over capable of properly enunciating the word "genome".

[thrillzonevideos]

it appears the city in the backgroung is jacksonville, fl.

[Pahjx]

yeah! Star Trek TNG is what the Future will be like!

[razvanbucuresti]

IMORTALITY

[BugsellyBunny]

designing babies sucks- tatolly immoral to do that on a human :(

[DearestyouXII]

I know how my offspring will be!

It will have the same DNA repairing technique that Deinococcus radiodurans use.

Child-

Withstand high levels of ionizing radiation and well as protect against desiccation.

*Nuclear weapons detonates nearby; child takes a nice walk to the park, which holds extremely fatal levels of radiation to normal human beings*

*comes back home*

"So how was your day at the park son/daughter?"

"quite boring, there was no one alived there, I wonder why..."

[DearestyouXII]

Homo deus >Homo electissimus > Homo sapiens

Key Words:

Homo- genus taxonomy meaning: Human being, or simply 'man'

sapien- species taxonomy meaning: Wise

electissimus- meaning: Elite

deus- meaning: god

Genetically engineered species

[ikkoikki]

In good hands, I'm all in favour of genetics and all the potential that it could utilize, but I have one immediate question: why is it useful that mice glow under UV light?

[cl0r]

the patent for the insulin making gene does in no way ensure the production of insulin. however, it can make insulin a hell of a lot more expensive than it has to be.

the war on drugs should never have been the war on drugs, but rather, the war on greedy drug companies.

[JuniorDExchangecore]

SAVE ALL CHANGES. "Sorry, Microsoft Genetics has crashed. Send error report?"

*proceeds with blue screen and derp baby*

[negativethoughts]

HAHA! lol

[jccooluser]

@JuniorDExchangecore she shoultav used a mac

[henik9]

Patiented or patented?

[kuduzdoktorhektor]

Doctor from scene from GATTACA...

[jmm1233]

DNA should not be patiented

[nishbrown]

So glad they finally made mice that glow!

[franksaninocencio]

GATTACA

[HandBanana741]

@franksaninocencio  CTAATGT

[baidawi]

hahaha

[nidodson]

haha, freakin BS, a patten helps cures of illnesses help people? How does the patten do anything helpful? Other than make things cost more.

[Zetimenvec]

A patten is something you wear on your feet, a patent is the word you're looking for.

and patents help protect the inventor. They promote people to do research and development by guaranteeing that their inventions can only be marketed by them, promising a return in the way of profits or services. If inventors aren't guaranteed that return, then there's no incentive to do the hard work when someone can steal it and/or your profits.

[nidodson]

Oh, just like how art work didn't exist before copyright laws.

[Zetimenvec]

yeah, but back then it was really hard to copy things, yet a process or a mechanism was relatively the easiest things to replicate. So patents were designed to protect things in that sort of slow moving system.

nowadays patents may seem to do more harm than good because they're not designed to be used in this quick changing easy to copy media environment. and unfortunately legislators don't seem to be bold enough to make the changes necessary for them to be effective like they used to be.

[nidodson]

Which brings us partly to our problem. Still, though I think if you find out something amazing that you should get money for it, you shouldn't be able to rape people on the pricing of things just because you own the rights to it.

That comes down to actually getting someone with some business ability to help you take your great idea and make money from it. If you are not smart enough to do that, I am not sure you have the right to make the money from it.

That is just my opinion though.

[Zetimenvec]

and the bigger problem is that this sort of thing can mostly only retain within opinion, because testing every alternative route or slightly different functionary possibility of patents would be a near unachievable process. so we have to take a guess somewhere and stick with that since changing these laws is both time consuming and expensive.

[nidodson]

Is it more expensive than letting the RIAA run around raping little kids? Then also going where ever they have to to go after pirate bay who did absolutely nothing illegal, and nothing Google doesn't already do.

Somehow cases going after the exact same thing, that will be ended the exact same way, get tried as separate cases instead of one case, then split off when there is an exception or difference. We have no efficiency in our legal system, and idiots in our government.

[DefenderOfReason]

Thanks for posting this - it's clear and concise :-)

[theatheistguy]

How is the patent for insulin saving lives? It's clearly the insulin. If there was no patent on it then it would be made far more widely available, as well as cheaper.

[firefox71]

I think the base genetics should be "open source".

Sure money was spent on research to get the code for the genome, but science should be free, dammit. Make money off of the products you develop from your findings, but leave the code for others to experiment and test with.

[ShaCRaM]

we can't clone ourselves because of we are so intricately evolved beings that we have like soul and stuff we can't clone. It just can't work for us.

[Khronofox]

You should present these scientific views to the scientific community. I smell a Nobel Priiiiiize!

[Creationsofmyown]

.... says who?

there is no evidence of soul in all of science.,...

[ShaCRaM]

Because science can't test is there is soul or not that's why there's no evidence. If something can't be tested that do not mean it doesn't exist.

[Creationsofmyown]

name 1 thing that exists without evidence....

we have taken the body apart...

there is no soul there...

[ShaCRaM]

Aliens in the Universe.

[Creationsofmyown]

lol kudos.... something that must be true due to the laws of large numbers... being compared to something imaginary.....

not bad tho... good of u to come up with one.

[buginwater]

science test things in the natural world not supernatural.

[ShaCRaM]

Yea. Pseudoscience test things in the supernatural phenomena. So BOTH are needful.

[buginwater]

Pseudoscience by it's own definition is not science. Pseudo means false, fake or not real. I need to contact a friend but I can't use my phone because he is a supernatural unicorn. I think if I use something that looks like a phone but dosen't work I might be able to reach him. Sprinkle some pixie dust for me.

[ShaCRaM]

It doesn't mean FAKE it means FALSE pseudo ir FALSE or PRETENDING. You dipshit.

[buginwater]

I have false in my definition.

[ShaCRaM]

Ok I stop arguing with total sceptics. It's just useless thing. Just be cool and have a great life.

[Creationsofmyown]

funny... thats what we are arguing... albeit for a different reason... you do only have one life you know... and once its gone... thats it.

[deefsound]

That's a silly statement.

[sk8progression]

It also doesn't mean that it does.

Welcome to the other side of the coin.

[humanist7117]

Scary! Think 400 pound football linemen and 8 foot basketball centers.

[cidvisions]

Was that Jacksonville FL at the beginning of the video?

[anglaismoyen]

Pandora is sexy as hell!

[anglaismoyen]

Could you mix hare genes with a corn plant to make an ear of corn?

[RedDaVincy]

In the future, we will all give birth to the chinese :|

[swivelingchairguy]

I don't trust the guy talking.... can i punch him please?

[MihaZ]

Your opinion is meaningless, it was very informative and everything fit with what I was told in my science classes in college

[swivelingchairguy]

Can i punch you?

[busheybushdawg]

Very informative - thanks for posting this!

[y0kent0]

Pandora's pretty cute :)

Thanks for the great series!

[KillCount666]

Lol, it's the powerthirst guys.

[BKF666]

I'm not fully up to date on everything in the scientific community but it seems they strung together RNA to make DNA and resurrected polio. Thus created life and something deadly.

[mbukwich]

If I'm not mistaken, polio is a virus and therefore, not alive. Correct me if I am wrong, but I believe it is just a string of nucleic acids - still quite deadly, just not considered a lifeform.

Did anyone else find the part about how our patent laws hinder medical research extremely disturbing???

[FlyingFree333]

Patent laws have been a disaster in most areas of research and commerce. They badly designed and horribly implemented.

[FlyingFree333]

A virus isn't living but they did create self replicating molecules. Yes, the virus is deadly but it was created for research purposes to investigate why it's so deadly and how better to deal with it. Knowing more about viruses, bacteria and deseases is always a good thing and the reason we live so much longer today.

[BKF666]

Checking different sources show varying opinions of viruses and if they are alive or not. Viruses seem not to be clearly defined as a living organism or not due to this varying of opinion on what constitutes a living organism.

[Gerafix]

Computer, reroute power to the main deflector dish.

[tsjoencinema]

Not superman... A FREAK

[FlyingFree333]

A child born with horrible, natural, genetic birth defects is a freak. A child born with altered DNA to prevent those defects is normal, happy and healthy. Don't let you superstition cloud your judgement.

[tsjoencinema]

"superstition"? LOL

This is the start of two new human races. The DNA altered branch and the horrible, natural and genetic defective branch.

[FlyingFree333]

The human race changes with every new birth, there are people born immune to cold, that grow muscle instead of fat, immune to heart desease, with unbreakable bones. Change is natural, unfortunately so is irrational fear of change. There is nothing wrong with using the tools of science to improve ourselves. I assume you don't have a problem with all the other ways it makes you life better, easier, healthier and longer.

[biomanwin]

It's just guided evolution, however we have to make sure that we don't damage ourselves as a species by eliminating too much diversity. Yes eliminating bad genes such as the ones that increase cancer risk is a good idea, but eliminating too many otherwise benificial genes for superficial reasons could be disasterous.

[philthy122]

acceptance is the first step to recovery

[bigredjeff007420]

awesome vid.

[Prytanus]

Forget about humans with gills.  How about humans that can perceive 26 frames per second instead of 13? Or have IQs of 300.

Khan Noonian Sing was a pussy. Genetic engineering is the next step in human evolution. It IS going to happen. We need to make sure that it happens responsibly.

[purplefuzzythings]

Meh.

The Singularity will come first, and transhumanism. Mechanical transcendence will occur before genetic transcendence.

[bigblakblob2]

super soldiers will come first.

[Youanden]

Love your answer. If the monolithic system remains as it is today, that is exactly what will happen. Unless they design a nanovirus that could pilot its way to enemies, then there will be no need. War development has always come first.

[FlyingFree333]

The idea of super soldiers is not very reasonable. Keep in mind you only get babies, who need to be fed, clothed, educated and raised for years and who would still be capable of independent thought and not necessarily choose to be a soldier or to obey. You don't get instant killer drones.

[Zetimenvec]

you do get killer drones if you put electronic control devices in their brains! :insert cheesy plot twist sound here:

[SuperFlyNB]

Two Words

Twelve Monkeys

[FlyingFree333]

How is an artificially created and contained virus more dangerous than a naturally occuring and uncontained one? Lab work with viruses has resulted in treatments, vaccinations and cures for many of the deadliest deseases in the world. Don't let superstition and fear cloud your judgement.

[LipGlossNBlack]

it's great if stem cell research can cure people of certain diseases... but geesh, imagine some lunatic who would abuse this technology. i watch too many science fiction movies and this video makes me think of gattaca and resident evil o_o

[Zetimenvec]

I can't think of any abuse of stemcells. Maybe abuse of viral or bacterial genetic information. but I honestly can't think of one reason not to go after adult stem cell research.

[Ormaaj]

This is absolutely true. This is not science fiction stuff. knockin/knockout and constructing whole genomes is not new. Its been around, and its widespread. Its easy even. I've done it myself.

You can learn how to make bacteria glow with the jellyfish pglo gene in just about any introductory college genetics class, for instance.

[summoncaster]

True, I have done that, yey!

[bphilli3]

Is it just me or did that 12 year old have massive breasts?

[Khayd4126]

A well developed 12 yo indeed.

[wjkaiser65]

There are girls in the sixth grade of the school my grand daughter goes to that are as big

[FreudsCigar]

Well the last one was a direct copy of Gattaca....but still well done.

[ghost8605]

after 5:00 this genetic virus stuff, they could wipe out an entire race of people and leave others intact? dangerous if illuminati or new world order shit has anything to do with it

[1RadicalOne]

I think only the fundies - and the criminally insane - are lunatic enough to design a virus lethal enough to be of global concern.

[1RadicalOne]

I think the video is a bit damaged; it seems to skip a bit.

[RustyCyler]

Great stuff. thanks for the series. 5 stars

[Sanngot]

An awesome series. We live in an exciting age.

[Paxmax]

great vid folks!!!

[Onodera1980]

The ability to patton genes is a terrible thing. All you have to do is look at genetically "enhanced" agriculture. Farmers can be sued if their crop contains some of the pattoned crop, even though this modified crop occured in their field naturally. You can't control nature. You can try, but you will fail.

[jwfcp]

Indeed, it seems our patent system cant tell the difference between patenting a mouse trap and patenting the concept of killing mice. You cant patent a shiny rock you found lying on the ground, why should one be able to patent genes they only found?

sure, patent the process/method of getting insulin from those genes, but if someone else invents a way to do it better or a different use of them, they get to patent that newer, better system.

[opaldragon75]

A lot of good points and stuff to think about.

if religious nut could just get over failed "Creationism", we could get to debating the pro & con of the true importian issus like in this video.

[Razgriz515]

Simply devastating, but a good video. Looking forward to the next!

[Abengoshis]

The first person didn't say "first"?!

People are coming to their senses!!!

Great video, please continue to make them. Good content accompanied by good animations//videos are what makes this channel stand out.

Plus the voice is easy to understand.

[Dragos1591]

Another great vid. Thank you