Jillian Banfield directs us to BORG: a strange foreign entity, neither alive nor dead, that assimilates and shares important genes... A floating toolbox, likely full of blueprints, some that we may one day harness, like CRISPR
. [h/t hbdchick.]
The new retrovirus. Seems like.
I wonder if these para-organisms, like retroviri, are already infecting people and swapping DNA / RNA we don't want swapped. Can these be stopped?
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