this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
522 points (93.6% liked)

Science Memes

14592 readers
633 users here now

Welcome to c/science_memes @ Mander.xyz!

A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.



Rules

  1. Don't throw mud. Behave like an intellectual and remember the human.
  2. Keep it rooted (on topic).
  3. No spam.
  4. Infographics welcome, get schooled.

This is a science community. We use the Dawkins definition of meme.



Research Committee

Other Mander Communities

Science and Research

Biology and Life Sciences

Physical Sciences

Humanities and Social Sciences

Practical and Applied Sciences

Memes

Miscellaneous

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

Sequence them; he was bashing in a gene that we already know conveys HIV resistance (but not complete immunity), the โˆ†32 mutation. If sequencing shows that the babies have the mutation, and also don't have any other negative mutations as a result of the experiment, then it was successful.

That 'and also' is the hard one to be sure about.