Social media is heating up over why Asians don’t have body odor
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Between 80 and 95% of East Asians have little to none of that typical acidic body odor smell. And it all comes down to a gene mutation.
  • Eiri@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    We can do this on isolated cells, but I really don’t think we have a way to distribute such a change across the zillions of cells in a human body.

    And even if we could, it’s not clear how much effect altering the gene after the fact would have. Maybe once your apocrine glands have obeyed the gene and developed a certain way, it’s too late.

    That said… Sign me the hell up.

    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Well, The Thought Emporium made a pill with a virus that modified the genome in at least some of his cells, and made him lactose tolerant for a year and after that he was left significantly more able to handle lactose than before.

      So it’s absolutely possible to some degree, for some gene manipulation at least.