Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNA, experts say

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Colonizing Mars may require humanity to tweak its DNA, experts say
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Living permanently on Mars, or any other world beyond Earth, may require some tweaks to humanity’s DNA, experts say.

"And are we maybe ethically bound to do so?" he said during the webinar."I think if it's a long enough mission, you might have to do something, assuming it's safe, which we can't say yet."Deinococcus radiodurans

"If we ever get there, those are the cases where the human body would be almost completely fried by the amount of radiation," Mason said."There, it would be certain death unless you did something, including every kind of shielding you could possibly provide." "These are some of the things that we can actually do to help us make things we need, help us make materials to build our habitats," she said."And these are a lot of things that scientists are researching right now — to create these kinds of things for our trip to Mars."designer microbes to terraform Mars

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