No Pain, Big Gain

No hunger. No pollution. No disease. Wired’s Amy Maxmen welcomes you to the age of copy and paste DNA editing and the end of life as we know it. “Genome editing started with just a few big labs putting in lots of effort, trying something 1,000 times for one or two successes. Now it’s something that someone with a BS and a couple thousand dollars’ worth of equipment can do. What was impractical is now almost everyday. That’s a big deal.”

+ “Steven Pete can put his hand on a hot stove or step on a piece of glass and not feel a thing.” And drug companies see gold when they look at Steven Pete and other people with rare genetic mutations. From Bloomberg: These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could Be Worth Billions. (If Pfizer knew how many browser tabs I could open at once, they’d be banging down my door…)