Genetic Engineering

[Talos]

Get ready for the ultimate in genetic science.

You could easily be turned into your fursona if you simply had DNA of the animal your fursona is based on. With the set animal DNA used as a base, other things can be mixed into the code later to change the physical appearance. Combination with a bit of your human DNA would be fine, the best source for DNA would be your blood. This would give the anthropomophic anatomy, like the ability to stand on two legs and talk. Obviously, clothes aren't going to be created through genetics as the final result, since you don't have clothes in your blood, animals don't wear clothes, and it's not as simple as taking your underwear and throwing it in a scanner.  As for furry children, this is entirely dependent on who yor wife is. Let's assume most of your cells and hormones are intact, so you still have your reproductive organs during the cell merging, when you finally become anthropomophic. If your wife is human, the children will end up being anthropomophic, and never all human. Why? Anthropomorphic animals, if anything, are a fusion of man and animal. Your kids are likely to be anthropomophic due to the human DNA already being present in them, so there's no need to add human DNA, so genetic code focuses on adding animal DNA, adding what the wife doesn't have, effectively making them anthro. If your wife is also anthro, it's obvious that the baby will be anthropomophic. The baby won't be perfect, heck you won't be perfect once you're anthro. There's too much of a conflict between your human and animal DNA that you and your baby might be quite vulnerable to diseases. However, if enough animal DNA is present in the baby, or if enogh human DNA is in the bay, it will turn out perfect, due to more DNA being present, making that DNA high priority and avoiding further conflict within their body, bascally saying "I make up more of the body's DNA, listen to me first".

As for being my fursona, yes I would.
I also would have an anthro baby.

[MrRazot]

Also it could still be in our lifetime
Considering that pills that extent your life span by about an extra 100 years are going to be in our lifetime

[anoni]

Talos,
you could also use DNA computers and artificial Cyborg DNA (already actually made) so that DNA is modifiable real time. However, with the kids thing, I don't think it's like that.

  It's whether being an Anthro is comprised mainly of recessive or dominant genes. You don't get half a chromosome, instead each chromosome is given a pair, if a particular trait, such as growing fur, was a dominant gene than your child has a 75% chance to grow fur. On the other hand, if an animal like eye was recessive, you would have a child that only has 25% chance to get an animal eye. You could have a strange mutation of animal and human, with some animal characteristics and some human characteristics, not neatly blended however.

If your wife had the same anthro chromosomes as you, your children will be 100% anthro.

[Aoren Deringer]

That and this is ignoring the fact that changing a any of a large number of genes can result in fatal abnormalities. Unofrtunately genertic engineering in the form of cross-species modification is a long way off, and a great many will die before it is finished.
Thus why I said I wasnt into genetic engineering to that extent xD Modified all-human DNA Gene therapy treatments are brilliant IMO, but I just dont see us managing much beyond that in this generation simply due to the infinite number of variables.

[Talos]

Ah, I see what you mean. Such an interesting discussion.

[anoni]

That and this is ignoring the fact that changing a any of a large number of genes can result in fatal abnormalities. Unofrtunately genertic engineering in the form of cross-species modification is a long way off, and a great many will die before it is finished.
Thus why I said I wasnt into genetic engineering to that extent xD Modified all-human DNA Gene therapy treatments are brilliant IMO, but I just dont see us managing much beyond that in this generation simply due to the infinite number of variables.

As I said, through the process of "Cyborg DNA" which is artificial DNA, DNA becomes controllable on the fly! So if an abnormality happens, it can actually be reversed!

Now only that, they are working on a technology to turn human nerves into optical fibres, pretty much our normal nerves move at about 40m/s. Imagine them moving at 300,000,000m/s

[Talos]

Stronger and faster nerves....wouldn't that increase your reflexes and reaction time?

[shadowgear]

increaseing reaction time........ I hope that is expenive because the last thing we need is more noobs cheating on call of duty.

(I made a funny.)

Post Merge: June 07, 2012, 11:17:38 AMIncreaseing reaction time...... I hope its expenive, because the last thing we need is more noobs cheating on call of duty.

(I made a funny.)

[anoni]

Not only would it increase reaction time, but it would actually make you more intelligent. You can handle more calculations a second, so lets say currently it took you 5 seconds to figure out a math equation. If we had optical fibers, we could do that same math question in roughly 666 nano-seconds, I think, it's probably not as simple as that. But then problems could arise that your body simply wouldn't be able to keep up with your new speed.

You might be expecting to open a jar of peanut butter, grab some bread, put peanut butter on bread, put bread together, put peanut in the cupboard and clean up. You expect to all those things and you THINK you have already done those things, but in truth you are still reaching for the peanut butter.

[Aoren Deringer]

Would certainly make cybernetic enhancements easier to envision.
But even then that's assuming that the process would be available-
I dont doubt such surgical options would come with immense risk and expense.

[anoni]

Yeah, but as I keep saying cyborg DNA
It's pretty much DNA code that has code in it to edit DNA code and it's really easy to modify too

It's what they believe is going to be the best way to modify DNA

[ZombiezuRFER]

You can't just insert genes into yourself and expect to turn into your fursona, you'd have to ensure your every cell received the genes at first and tehn what you get is a human... with animal genes, not your fursona.
Instead, I'll combine becoming my fursona with immortality and skip genetic engineering a body, and just go for bioprinting.  I can then get a brain transplant into my newly printed body and reap the benefits of both it and immortality.  Whileit would remain genetically human, the body plan can be my fursona and it would remain that way.

[anoni]

Again, cyborg DNA
It's DNA that gets other DNA to do things you want it to do.

Now, DNA releases chemicals that tell your cells what to do, I guess, perhaps you could create a virus if the cyborg DNA didn't work

[ZombiezuRFER]

Again, cyborg DNA
It's DNA that gets other DNA to do things you want it to do.

Now, DNA releases chemicals that tell your cells what to do, I guess, perhaps you could create a virus if the cyborg DNA didn't work

Yeah, but that doesn't change the issue that your still a human, just with different DNA.  Changing your DNA doesn't modify the body structure, just the chemicals your cells produce.

[Beatnory]

Again, cyborg DNA
It's DNA that gets other DNA to do things you want it to do.

Now, DNA releases chemicals that tell your cells what to do, I guess, perhaps you could create a virus if the cyborg DNA didn't work

Yeah, but that doesn't change the issue that your still a human, just with different DNA.  Changing your DNA doesn't modify the body structure, just the chemicals your cells produce.

it has some effect on the children you are going to get. If you want a furry as child