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Whether you arrived here looking for the sci-fi horror film, a lost encoding script, or a piece of internet history, the keyword delivers a unique intersection of art and engineering. The film Splice asked, "What happens when you break genetic boundaries?" The technical artifact asks, "What happens when you break filename conventions?"

When premiered, CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing was still a niche academic tool. The first human embryo gene editing experiments would not be reported until 2015. Today, we live in a world of lab-grown organs, genetically modified "woolly mice," and the fallout from He Jiankui’s CRISPR babies. --Splice-2009----

Remember when Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley decided to ignore all ethical boundaries and splice human DNA with animal DNA? 😬 Whether you arrived here looking for the sci-fi

They argued the matter in a conference room full of leftover pastries and moral fatigue. The university's representative, a woman whose face never changed, said, "We can keep it contained indefinitely." The donor's liaison said, "We must proceed under the law." The ethics committee said, "We need peer review." The lawyers said, "If liability is incurred, the institution will be liable." The tone became a chorus of instruments playing different scores. The noise of opinion bent the lab into a narrow seam. Today, we live in a world of lab-grown

The film explores several themes, including: