Mm maybe holds promise for some...
Beyond CRISPR-Cas9
Fahim,
The most important advance will be to crispr-editing of popular cerials, such as rice, to yield high protein content with all needed amino acids! The will be the democratization of great nutrition. Plants will directly be producing fish and meat protein.
Rabbis have already “ruled” that pork protein made by plants is “kosher” and not a form of “meat” in the sense of Jewish Law. How hallal rules would apply I have not heard! But I see no issue with beef, the biggest farm source of methane and a recognized source of temperature pollutants that trap heat in the planet’s atmosphere leading to global warming. Helping provide high quality protein to massive burgeoning
populations is a great advance, although GMOs are maligned just like vaccines!
The danger of GMOs is not being poisoned or sone harm to health! Rather as circumstances on the planet change drastically, (or perhaps a new organism evolves or an ancient one escapes from the permafrost), many of the previous 2,000 year old natural rice and other grain variants will be desperately needed to rescue our food supply.
The danger in GMOs is that natural food crops will become extinct as farmers switch to herbicide resistant seeds!
Within our lifetimes we will see human vertebrae being 3D reprinted around the spinal cord in living people and the pancreas and kidneys replaced.
Already Tel Aviv University has built from scratch, (with all the separate diverse cell types, except the nervous pathways), an entire human heart with blood vessels. So far it would only fit in the pericardium of a big rabbit!
The most frightening advance is the total control of telomeres and thence the ending of death from senescence. Imagine, certain skilled folk might not be allowed to ever die!
Asher