Creating “zombie parasites” with CRISPR?

Could the CRISPR-Cas9 method be used to modify a parasite's DNA so that it can control the impulses of a human brain when infected? I really wonder if something like that could theoretically be possible.

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napoloni
1 year ago

Certainly, you could do that if you had the corresponding construction plan. But you could not control the impulses of that person.

We’re already being alienated. A change in behaviour is observed in the infected of toxoplasma gondii. And our microbiome in the intestine also seems to have an influence on our behavior.

JoshuasFragende
1 year ago

No. The human brain is much too complex to be foreign-scattered.