Questions tagged [genetic-engineering]
For questions about artificially modifying the DNA of a life form.
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Genetic modifications for the ultimate office drone?
In a dystopian future, genetic editing, stem cell research and cloning have become commonplace. Humans in embryo can be genetically modified and designed to a immense variation; some people can give ...
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Genetic altering to make human lungs strong enough to process water [duplicate]
I am aware that human lungs can't process water due to other reasons, but I am working on a setting that has genetically altered humans of various degrees and one of them can breathe water and air. I ...
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Can An Adult Be Genetically Engineered? [duplicate]
Would be possible to apply genetic changes (like splicing in a radiation hardening gene) to an adult human? With near future technology, like advanced forms of CRISPR? Or can things like that only be ...
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What does the physiology and biochemistry of a vacuum adapted post-human look like? Part 5: Senses
I am a post-human adapted for permanent life in vacuum and micro-gravity. How might my physiology and biochemistry overcome the following challenges?
Please note I have a strong cultural aversion to ...
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How could an AI be in the real world organically and humanely (not in a robotic body)? [closed]
Say I have some artificial intelligence characters in a virtual reality world that my human characters have bonded with in ways of friendship, romance, etc before they find out they're AI. How would ...
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Genetically created centaur for combat purposes
Edit: In an attempt to not make a gigantic wall of text, I ended up cutting important information from the question. I have re-elaborated the question for better understanding of the setting. Sorry ...
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Real DNA encryption (or at least making it hard to decode/change)
So I'm the owner of a startup which is going to make our lives easier with custom-DNA creatures! Our few first products are selling very well and nothing was wrong until last week's events.
Another ...
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Bioengineered reversible sterility
The Humern empire is vast, unbelievably powerful and (in certain matters) brutally authoritarian.
One such issue is that of reproduction. In order to ensure that all subjects of the Empire remain ...
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Can genetic modifications become hereditary? [closed]
Could genetic modifications become hereditary over time? If so could they evolve over time similar to regular genes? For example making carbon fibre bones for whatever reason would they eventually ...
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Why might a species create a biological torture species?
So, their is an ancient species I’m creating, and their names are simply “The Progenitors”. They existed over 3 million years ago, I’m the Milky Way Galaxy, but sometime 1 million years ago, the ...
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Cloning a fully grown adult?
So, as most of you know, cloning is possible, and is being practiced in our modern era. Cloning, usually, creates an baby with the exact same genetic code as the person they got the DNA from. The ...
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Could the genetic makeup of two parents theoretically combine just right to make a superhuman, or at least semi-superhuman child?
Basically I want my character to have only gotten their powers through the luck of two parents with the right genes mixing. Technically, given enough time and enough generations of breeding, couldn't ...
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How do I measure the stages of futuristic genetic engineering development? [closed]
Please note this question was originally asked and deleted by the user Era. I've chosen to resurrect the question with slight modifications because I think it is deserving of and will foster ...
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Could a Large Marine Organism Develop an EMP Capable of Disabling Watercraft?
Let's say a genetically engineered organism (as large as a whale), capable of swimming and breathing underwater, have an EMP field as a form of defense against man-made watercraft like warships and ...
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Creature Design Challenge- Extreme Gravity Flying Vertebrate
If you were tasking with creating a genetically engineered flying creature, capable of full powered flight on a (newly terraformed) planet with a surface gravity almost twice that of Earth's, do you ...
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Could genetic engineering be used to create a fully emotionless person?
I was thinking about the 47 character of Hitman and I thought if in the future genetic engineering could be used to create a person with no emotions and feelings at all.How could this be achieved?...
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Is this genetically enhanced human possible?
Imagine a human which could deliver electrical shocks for example by touching someone. He could shock with different intensities from a harmful shock to knocking out a person. Of course he could ...
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Radiotrophic Fungus Organelles
The question is basically summed up in the title but here is some context:
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I got a character who has been genetically engineered to handle high doses of radiation exposure (50,000 grays) and ...
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Will be possible to create sentient animals and intelligent humanoid animals with Genetic Engineering? [closed]
I mean will be possible someday to create animals that are sentient and as intelligent as humans with Genetic Engineering?And humanoid animals that walk, talk and have personality and rights like ...
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Genetically altering soldiers to be capable of doing missions in an aquatic environment?
So, in the mid 25th century, humanity has become a space faring race, with about 10,000 planets under control of Earth. There are many different ecosystems on different planets, from normal ones, like ...
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Realistic Mythical Creatures [closed]
What mythological creatures could be realistically created? In my world, there are people capable of advanced genetic creation and manipulation. I was just wondering what creatures would be plausible ...
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How CAN we scale up living creatures to be giant sized?
Piggybacking on this question: Can you simply scale up animals? how CAN we scale up living creatures to be giant sized? What would need to done to make truly giant animals (Dragons, Kong, Godzilla, ...
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Taxonomy of genetically engineered species
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I have a group of genetically engineered people known as 'crows'. Their genome has been meddled with significantly enough that they are unable to successfully reproduce with humans, but ...
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What's the most plausible way to bio-engineer an underground ecosystem, without photosynthesis, to produce oxygen?
Here's the full question:
What's the most plausible way to bio-engineer an underground ecosystem, without using photosynthesis, so a mine system would not need an active air exchange system? (It was ...
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Valid justification for “GMO mech suit”
I'm writing a story about a group of humans (or humanoid people) that are living on a spaceship that's orbiting a planet with high gravity; the force is too much for direct human involvement. There ...
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Biological mechanism for complex life to operate in high temperatures
How could complex life like humans of or other animals evolve to exist in temperatures in excess of 100 degrees centigrade. This does not need to be natural as long as it can in theory be achieved and ...
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Organic solar power generators [closed]
After watching a scene in the Matrix where they had humans hooked up to produce electricity I wandered if this could be done at any level with living plants in the soil?
All the examples online has ...
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Would it be possible to genetically engineer a human immune to weapons? If so, up to what point? [closed]
I'd like to know exactly how much we could genetically engineer a human to be able to withstand any serious hit by a blunt object, a knife or sword slash, or a gun shot. Doing this with things like ...
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Methods to Implant Serial Numbers in/on Clones
I am writing a science fiction story with mass produced clones. Since I have a number of clone I need to tell them apart. The ID system must be:
Permanent over the lifetime of the clone (call it 150 ...
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Effects of a Different muscular Fiber structure
So my society can genetically engineer using Retro-viral vectors specially designed to work on only the subject they are injected into. I wanted my police force to be locked in a struggle with ...
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Genetic enhancements to breed docility, intelligence, empathy, and acceptance?
I'm beginning to build a post-apocalyptic world wherein rulers want to breed humanity in such a way that: 1) does not end up again in the ecological mess we see in the real world, and; 2) human beings ...
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Keeping One's Figure - Myostatin Regulation
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I am working on a super soldier transhuman/posthuman concept for my fictional world. It takes the base human genome then uses genetic engineering to augment, delete, enhance, add, and ...
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How would the (US or world) economy recover if healthcare became unnecessary?
The year is 2019. Someone has taken the most cutting-edge AI technologies to create a machine. It was tasked with studying the DNA humans, and making them indestructible. A virus was created that ...
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What reason would give the most benefits to a Progenitor race for creating sub-races? [closed]
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Genetically-engineered extraterrestrial virus [closed]
I'm writing a story where an alien race of refugees comes to Earth and through their pollen they spread a virus. This virus was in fact, genetically engineered by the aliens as a means to propagate ...
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What would be the consequences of these biological changes to a human
So let's say you changed a human's DNA to give him:
a thick exoskeleton that is a lot like that of a mantis shrimp (to make him bullet-proof)
very small holes all over his body to use to breathe ...
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Genetically Modified Human Super Leaders [closed]
In my book set in the future, all of humanity has united under the leadership of a super race of genetically modified people called Overseers (numbering at least 1000) and has built a space (empire ...
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Could I use CRISPR on T-Rex so that it will ignore human being on the street?
Suppose T-Rex And Ever, a sister company of T-Rex Forever LLC tries to use advanced CRISPR technology to engineer a hybrid T-Rex so that it is still as aggressive as ever but will not be interested in ...
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Can Genetic Engineering Hurt? [closed]
One of the most infamous elements of science fiction is genetic engineering. Numerous times in the Star Trek universe, genetic engineering has been depicted as resulting in trouble and therefore ...
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What would be in a shuttle's survival kit for aliens trapped on a primitive planet?
The scenario: an alien crew has a shuttle landed on Earth in the 1980's. Their main ship is extremely damaged and beyond reach somewhere in the Milky Way. Their shuttle cannot escape Earth's ...
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How to Extend Female Fertility Period without Altering Current Pubescent Timing?
I would like to use CRISPr Cas9 technology to extend the life expectancy of my fictional civilizations. From what I understand, CRISPr could extend life by lengthening telomeres and improve quality of ...
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Is it possible to have detachable natural armor?
This is a partial extension to this question: What kind of natural armor would stop bullets?
I was wondering if a creature could grow armor in such a way which would allow for it to detach a portion ...
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How to modify DNA without using computers?
I would like for a civilization to be very good at bio-engineering, but I do not know how they would be able to modify DNA to suit their purposes, with greater things than breeding can bring. For ...
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Anatomically reasonable respiratory system for human-derived merfolk
This question considers the respiratory apparatus of an aquatic (or amphibious) species descended from engineered humans.
The history of the species provides a relevant constraint. While the science ...
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Killer Swarm Bio-weapons?
So I recently had this bizarre idea on using Swarming Wasps as Bio-weapons.
(I'm going to simply use Bio-engineered wasps instead of bees for sake of less confusion on what the swarm is of)
The ...
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Is a Biological whip a practical weapon? Pros and Cons?
I see a lot of this stuff in softcore fiction or high fantasy. A character or alien has some kind of bind or whipping ability, Either it's ribbons, bandages, Tentacles, Chains, vines, etc. Usually, ...
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Enhance our body by fusing It with better genes
Is it possible for a human body to became better by fusing it with new and better genes if other species? I played Mass Effect: Andromeda and this idea just doesn't come out of my head.
I mean - ...
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Is my method of changing the genetics of humankind realistic? [closed]
Years after humans have discovered an ancient aliens ruins on a planet they realize that the animals were capable of amazing feats. Said ruins have activated and killed the vast majority of humankind. ...
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How would a biolectrical plant work?
I was wondering...
If only we could make a GMO plant that could produce electricty thanks to bioelectricty.
How could that be done, how could it produce a lot of energy,
Also, how could we ...
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Why might it be desirable to engineer aquatic humans?
Consider a space opera sort of universe in which there exist communities of water-dwelling humanoids. These ocean people are derived from rootstock humans, descendants of genetically engineered human-...
