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DNA Manufacturing Enters the Age of Mass Production (ieee.org)
the_newsbeagle writes: Now that it's easy and cheap to build strands of DNA, what kinds of strange new organisms will scientists and start-ups build? That's the question raised as synthetic biology companies like Twist Bioscience and Zymergen start up their DNA manufacturing lines. Researchers who order DNA snippets typically pay on a cost-per-nucleobase basis. These companies say their mass-production techniques could bring prices down to 2 cents per base, which would allow researchers to scale up experiments and learn through trial and error.
In all honesty, I think that this technology has some promise when it comes to recreating penises that have been destroyed for one reason or another.
I'm sure we all know the golfer who had an accident, and as a result of a club impacting him in the groin his penis was completely destroyed. Or we know the skier who skied crotch-first into a tree and had his scrotum and penis turned to mush.
Now maybe these men don't have to suffer in silence any longer. Maybe this DNA technology could be used to help grow them replacement penises, based on their very own DNA. With some tweaks here and some tweaks there, they wouldn't just have to settle for a replacement for the penis they had before the accident. They could customize their penis to match their specifications.
Say one of these fellows, despite being white, always wanted a thicker, darker penis. I'm not a geneticist, but I think if you could get the DNA just right, it would be possible to grow him a penis just like he has always wanted.
So while you crack jokes about this technology, I think we should take it seriously. It has a lot of potential to really better the lives of a lot of victims of penile destruction.
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