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[–] MyFairJulia@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

8:40 on Google: "How to stop feral cats from spreading with gene therapy"

8:42 on Google: "How to undo cat extinction"

[–] Plibbert@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly my thought lol.

[–] Krzak 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Cats wouldn't go extinct if they couldn't uncontrollably reproduce anymore.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Great, now I have Mordin singing I Am The Very Model Of a Scientist Salarian stuck in my head again.

Really though, this seems neat. It is just contraception, it doesn't spread, it doesn't get passed on, nothing. But it's much easier than sterilization or castration as far as procedure time goes.

[–] AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My first thought too. We're going to genophage the cats

[–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

"You've been a champion to the felid people, a friend to clan Tabby, and a brother to me-ow!"

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

maybe I'm out of place here but having a bunch of vet techs modifying dna seems like a problem not unlike allowing car companies using public roads to test their self driving cars.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Isn't this how the plot of the original Planet of the apes started? Just saying

[–] TheDoctorDonna@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Loving the new Sci-Fi era were in.