What do you suggest we should make from the fish eggs?
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What about splicing them with a DNA Library of variants of Jellyfish protein to make them glow in different colors?
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first, bioluminescent fish to get your technique right, then go wild, maybe even give them genes that let them make bacteria that can replicate themselves
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Donโt pretty much all bacteria replicate themselves?
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thereโs no guarantee that a bacterium assembled from vesicles full of proteins in a eukaryotic cell will be able to though, you have to make sure it has the genes and organelles to do so
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Would fish gain any direct benefits from releasing these bacteriums?
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thatโs the job of the genetic engineer to decide, but the bacteria would benefit from helping the fish, as it can make more of them whenever it wants, and it ensures they donโt go extinct
a better way to do this though, would be to make the cells in the guts of the fish able to eat a bacterium, and put the genes from the bacterium into a spot in a chromosome that tells the cell to put those genes into the bacterium they make, and that way, bacteria would be able to Majorly benefit from helping the fish, at basically no cost to the fish!
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How would the bacteria be prevented from going parasitic in this relationship?
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Are you suggesting to add advanced DNA editing mechanisms, like CRISPR, into the gut epithelium of fish?
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Willow has much knowledge about things like thisโฆ
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Huh. The Desert Bandicoot looks more like Crash Bandicoot than the Eastern Barred Bandicoot that inspired the videogame character.
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Could be similar to the Utahraptor discovery situation.
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Except the Desert Bandicoot went extinct somewhere around the 1940s -1960s, based on the best estimates.
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Maybe it can be brought back from the dead one day in a proper wayโฆ
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Hopefully, not to promote videogame. Scientists would also have to make sure the Desert Bandicoot does not die again from the mysterious disease that affected it (probably the disease originated from outside of Australia).
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Hm. My best guess is first weโd need to somehow identify the disease and the have the revived bandicoots be immune to it before the infection grasps for them.
if they try to parasitize a cell, the immune system kills the cell
yep, bacteria already have them in their bodies, so the worst that could happen is something thatโd already have happened if eukaryotes evolved from a bacterial host cell instead of an archaean host cell, and could theoretically still happen if a bacterium decides it wants to start using eukaryotic cells to replicate using just its own genes
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The Deckard is coming soon!
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By soon you mean just how soon?
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A month. Maybe two.
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