schizoidman@lemm.ee to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours agoStem cells reverse woman’s diabetes — a world firstwww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up1308arrow-down11file-textcross-posted to: [email protected]
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minus-squareAlecSadler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·11 hours agoI agree this is amazing and huge, but for my own sanity, what stops someone from engineering cells that do bad?
minus-squaresunbeam60@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·9 hours agoEthics. Which is to say not a lot. But it’s not really a practical attack vector, if you’re worried about weaponisation. Simpler to just dump VX into the air.
I agree this is amazing and huge, but for my own sanity, what stops someone from engineering cells that do bad?
Ethics.
Which is to say not a lot.
But it’s not really a practical attack vector, if you’re worried about weaponisation. Simpler to just dump VX into the air.