• gidostro@lemmy.cafe
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    4 days ago

    It’s gonna be creepy when babies are born from 100+ year old sperm/embryos.

    I wonder if, in the future, babies made from old dna will be more desirable due to all the environmental and chemical impact on our dna.

    Like, “my baby doesn’t have three eyes because it’s from 300 year old dna”

    • CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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      We can print DNA iirc, and I’d imagine that tech will only improve with time, so if we really needed to keep some DNA from before some event that degrades all DNA afterwards, it might just be kept around as a computer file and synthesized as needed rather than frozen in living cells.