When we will be able to do genetic engineering on fully grown people?

[ScienceRocks]

When we will be able to do genetic engineering on fully grown people?

Nowadays genetic engineering is sucessful to do in embryos, but when will it become possible to perform on adult people?People say that it's impossible to do genetic modification after birth because the cells are already differenciated and such modification would have to be done in each of the trillion cells.But I think it will become feasible with nanorobotics or another similar technology.

I'd like to increase my iq to 200 and be able to live to 400 years old.

 

[waltky]

Matthew wrote: I'd like to increase my iq to 200 and be able to live to 400 years old.

You know what they say...

... "Be careful what you wish for...

... you may just get it."

 

[Old Rocks]

Even with my present IQ I would like to see my lifespan expanded to about 400 years. At present, it seems like you just begin to understand things about the time you are too old to use them.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

Isn't gene therapy a type of genetic engineering? I I'm no geneticist so I'm not to sure. Regardless I wouldn't mind being around to see the sun go red giant.

 

[JimBowie1958]

Even with my present IQ I would like to see my lifespan expanded to about 400 years. At present, it seems like you just begin to understand things about the time you are too old to use them.

Already done as some forms of vegetation can live millenia

 

[JimBowie1958]

When we will be able to do genetic engineering on fully grown people?

Nowadays genetic engineering is sucessful to do in embryos, but when will it become possible to perform on adult people?People say that it's impossible to do genetic modification after birth because the cells are already differenciated and such modification would have to be done in each of the trillion cells.But I think it will become feasible with nanorobotics or another similar technology.

I'd like to increase my iq to 200 and be able to live to 400 years old.

The techniques are already in use for genetic engineering of human beings, but they have to fully understand what they are trying to change before doing it.

This is of embryos, not adult humans
Genetically Modified Humans? How Genome Editing Works

Super-Intelligent Humans Are Coming - Issue 18: Genius - Nautilus

If only a small number of genes controlled cognition, then each of the gene variants should have altered IQ by a large chunk—about 15 points of variation between two individuals. But the largest effect size researchers have been able to detect thus far is less than a single point of IQ. Larger effect sizes would have been much easier to detect, but have not been seen.

This means that there must be at least thousands of IQ alleles to account for the actual variation seen in the general population. A more sophisticated analysis (with large error bars) yields an estimate of perhaps 10,000 in total.1

Each genetic variant slightly increases or decreases cognitive ability. Because it is determined by many small additive effects, cognitive ability is normally distributed, following the familiar bell-shaped curve, with more people in the middle than in the tails. A person with more than the average number of positive (IQ-increasing) variants will be above average in ability. The number of positive alleles above the population average required to raise the trait value by a standard deviation—that is, 15 points—is proportional to the square root of the number of variants, or about 100. In a nutshell, 100 or so additional positive variants could raise IQ by 15 points.

Given that there are many thousands of potential positive variants, the implication is clear: If a human being could be engineered to have the positive version of each causal variant, they might exhibit cognitive ability which is roughly 100 standard deviations above average. This corresponds to more than 1,000 IQ points.​

Humans Genetically Engineered To Be Super Intelligent Could Have An IQ Of 1000

The prospect of such superhumans roaming the same planet as us normals is, frankly, terrifying. As Hsu writes, "[t]he corresponding ethical issues are complex and deserve serious attention in what may be a relatively short interval before these capabilities become a reality."

He speculates that some countries will make genetic engineering legal before others, and, perhaps obviously, that elites will be the first ones who can avail themselves of the benefits of superintelligence for themselves and their children. But he believes — and we should hope — that access to this kind of technology will become democratized so that everyone can benefit.

As Hsu soberly warns at the end of his article: "The alternative would be inequality of a kind never before experienced in human history."​

We might all benefit from a genetics arms race?