I for one do not understand that we do not share our discoveries with nature. After all these animal experimentations we have big debt. It would only be decent to give something back.
I think we already made stronger and smarter(with human brain cells) mice. What if make every wild animal smarter in the same fashion?
Can we also improve photosynthesis?
Because we compete for resources with animals and there is no inhibition to prevent them from deploying additional intelligence to hurt, hunt, or starve humans.
Of course translational research is necessary with such results.
Explicit goal of developing cognitive enhancing therapies set by NIH would greatly help motivate such research.
I would love to see a project to raise optimized mice using the tremendous amount of research on them. Is anyone doing that already?
That would be pretty good, apply the best cancer prevention, longevity producing, cancer protecting treatments available to 100 mice, compared to the diet of a typical American in 100 other mice (not very ethical I know) and see what happens.