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by synparb 5300 days ago
I think your analogy is not quite right. Although seemingly similar, inserting Arsenic into DNA would be like taking a very large and complicated piece of software that was fundamentally dependent on the precise API of a component, and then changing that API to make it largely incompatible, thus requiring a large piece of your software to be re-written. It is not just like swapping in a suboptimal component that has no downstream effects.