https://www.technocracy.news/index.php/2017/08/11/scientists-use-crispr-gene-editing-tool-to-manipulate-behavior-in-ants/

This GMO operation (using CRISPR technology) is permanently changing the germline of these ants and with the specific purpose of changing their social behavior. Technocrats do not consider ethics or unfavorable outcomes that will surely occur. ⁃ TN Editor

The gene-editing technology called CRISPR has revolutionized the way that the function of genes is studied. So far, CRISPR has been widely used to precisely modify single-celled organisms and, more importantly, specific types of cells within more complex organisms. Now, two independent teams of investigators are reporting that CRISPR has been used to manipulate ant eggs—leading to germline changes that occur in every cell of the adult animals throughout the entire ant colony. The papers appear August 10 in Cell.
“These studies are proof of principle that you can do genetics in ants,” says Daniel Kronauer, an assistant professor at The Rockefeller University and senior author of one of the studies. “If you’re interested in studying social behaviors and their genetic basis, ants are a good system. Now, we can knock out any gene that we think will influence social behavior and see its effects.”
Because they live in colonies that function like superorganisms, ants are also a valuable model for studying complex biological systems. But ant colonies have been difficult to grow and study in the lab because of the complexity of their life cycles.
The teams found a way to work around that, using two different species of ants. The Rockefeller team employed a species called clonal raider ants (Ooceraea biroi), which lacks queens in their colonies. Instead, single unfertilized eggs develop as clones, creating large numbers of ants that are genetically identical through parthogenesis. “This means that by using CRISPR to modify single eggs, we can quickly grow up colonies containing the gene mutation we want to study,” Kronauer says.
The other team, a collaboration between researchers at New York University and the NYU School of Medicine, Arizona State University, the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and Vanderbilt University. , used Indian jumping ants (Harpegnathos saltator). “We chose this species because they have a peculiar feature that makes it easy to transform workers into queens,” says Claude Desplan, a Silver Professor at NYU and one of the senior authors of the second study. If the queen dies, the young worker ants will begin dueling for dominance. Eventually, one of them becomes a “pseudoqueen”—also called a gamergate—and is allowed to lay eggs.
“In the lab, we can inject any worker embryo to change its genetic makeup,” Desplan says. “We then convert the worker to a pseudoqueen, which can lay eggs, propagate the new genes, and spawn a new colony.”
Desplan, co-senior author Danny Reinberg, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at NYU Langone, and Shelley Berger, the Daniel S. Och University Professor in the departments of Cell and Developmental Biology and Biology at Penn, began studying these ants several years ago as a way to learn about epigenetics, which refers to changes in gene expression rather than changes in the genetic code itself. “The queens and the worker ants are genetically identical, essentially twin sisters, but they develop very differently,” Desplan says. “That makes them a good system for studying epigenetic control of development.”
The gene that both research teams knocked out with CRISPR is called orco (odorant receptor coreceptor). Ants have 350 genes for odorant receptors, a prohibitively large number to manage individually. But due to the unique biology of how the receptors work—a great stroke of luck, in this case—the investigators were able to block the function of all 350 with a single knockout. “Every one of these receptors needs to team up with the Orco coreceptor in order to be effective,” says Waring Trible, a student in Kronauer’s lab and the first author of the Rockefeller study.Once the gene was knocked out, the ants were effectively blind to the pheromone signals they normally use to communicate. Without those chemical cues, they become asocial, wandering out of the nest and failing to hunt for food.
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HAHA. It's complicated...unlike Catholic Dogma.

I think theres a potentially good argument f/simplicity to be made.

However, if so there is likely a wheel to be "invented".

Do Americans speak English?

Thank you for that little bit of light relief after a very heavy thread. Anonymous, reveal yourself so that you can take the benefit.

Not many people speak English here in this part of the United States. The only problem is they don't speak anything else either. 

I believe it's when someone believes that it's the Sacrament that saves in voto as Ladislaus puts it. They say that you need the sacrament but you can receive the Sacrament by actually desiring it. It's still BOD though and not taught by the Church.

Thanks for trying man. Preesh.

My, this is serious information, and must be taken seriously.

Pope St. Paul VI The Great, so we've heard is alive and well, and living on the Flat Earth, with the Sun circling around him.  He's in a secret underground base in Antarctica, with Elvis and Cardinal Siri and the real Sister Lucy, until next week and the "America in Eclipse" event.  He's been on a really long sabbatical, hiding away from those lizard folk (the modernists) that Paul Icke was warned us about - more like a vacation sometimes.  So, he's a sede-vacationist more than sede-vacantist.  BTW, he gave his tripe tiara to the UN so that they could put it on his chair, showing that it wasn't really empty.

He's been dealing with a serious issue - there was a hidden defect in his infant baptism that has been mysteriously and mystically (and mythically?) revealed to him.  Now, he fully desires to be a member of the Church (that he's the head of), and has been willing to shed his blood for it for the past 100-200 years, but woe is me.  Everyone thinks he is dead, so he can't get anyone to baptize him, and he can't baptize himself.  But not to worry, that's not really going to be the Moon obscuring the Sun next week (what an insane and heretical idea!) - it's really a huge glob of water.  Don't we all know there's a huge wall water just hanging over us?  It's actually Dark Water - the EENS equivalent of Dark Matter.  Deny Dark Water and your soul is lost!  So, the glob of Dark Water will baptize Paul VI, and all will be well.  Well for Paul VI, but it might well tip the Earth from being Flat to something slightly different, like Eggshell, Matte, or Semi-Gloss - this could attract all the "Dark" in the "Dark Water", ushering in the Three Days of Darkness, slightly inconveniencing the rest of us.