i'm surprised absolutely noone here talks about the fact that we have absolutely no idea what the long term consequences of this new tech are.<p>We've all seen people advocating new wonderful technological solutions that fail because of unknown unknowns, in every field. That's just the rules of the R&D game.<p>In that case we're seriously thinking about injecting a new kind of drug to the whole world population based on a couple of short term trials, for a desease that is only lethal for far less than 1 percent of the population ( and in general, only the most fragile 1 percent).<p>I'm just like everyone and i find this new arn cell transcription machinery hacking absolutely insanely great. And i also think it <i>looks</i> safe from what the expert are explaining.<p>But is it safe enough to have it taken by everyone in the world ??