Transform Phages
Transform Phages — Terra Invicta technology. Genetic engineers create biological machines that can edit a living human's genome.
About Transform Phages
Transform Phages is a Terra Invicta technology in LifeScience with a research cost of 10,000.
Genetic engineers create biological machines that can edit a living human's genome.
With the majority of diseases and genetic disorders now preventable and even correctable thanks to recent developments in predictive genetics, our intentions now turn towards something more ambitious - biologically repairing a human body. Bacteriophages have long been used to treat bacterial infections, but it is how they achieve this that makes them so valuable: they inject DNA directly into a bacterial cell, thus rewriting its genetic identity. But what if we could further 'program' synthetic phages to carry other types of DNA, and to target specific human cells? We need wonder no longer. For now, the focus is on correcting genetic-level problems on the fly, in a live subject - baby steps towards altering the very information that makes us, us. The ultimate potential of phage-based gene-editing ranges from simple transformations in appearance to the building of more and stronger muscle material, more durable organs, and even the ability to adapt alien genetic material into our own bodies. Eventually, we shall make the human body not simply more long-lasting, but better in every conceivable way.