Question: can you make me a mutant teenage ninga turtal

Elliot Jokl answered on 10 Jun 2016:

Hello and thanks for the question!

I wish I could, but the technology is not there yet! We are in a very exciting time in Biology, though, because we have some really good tools for mutating genes in a very precise way. So even though a set of real life Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is a long way off, in the near future we can look forward to using these kind of tools to learn all sorts of things, and maybe even help cure harmful mutations that cause diseases in people.

I know that is a lot less exciting than making superheroes, but I hope you agree it is still pretty cool!