Cross species genetics

Cross species genetics is something I’ve been interested in

for a while now and I’ve decided to write a couple of pages
on it as I believe that this could be a major step in the
evolution of people. This is a very popular concept in quite a
few science-fiction films but I’m here to clear up what is
science and what is fiction.
Cross species genetics is the process of adding DNA from
one organism (weather that be a plant, animal or fungi) to
another in order to change the genetic makeup of cells in
said organism.
The goal of this is to transfer the attributes of one
organism to another in order to benefit it.
This is done by removing one gene from an organism and
placing it into the other one in hopes that some of the
attributes are transferred as well. Although this has never
been tested on humans, it is believed to be possible.
It is believed by many that cross species genetics could be
the key to cure many diseases including cancer. For
example, there are many animals that are much less likely to
get the disease than people are, such as the blue whale. You
would think that with its enormous size and longer lifespan
its chances of getting cancer would be much larger. It can
supress it almost 1000 times better than people are. This is
believed to be caused by something called Peto’s paradox
(named after Richard Peto who first described the idea in
the 1970s) which is when the incidence of cancer doesn’t
correlate with the number of cells in the organism. If
humans had this gene that whales have, it could save many,
many lives.
Another reason cross species genetics could benefit
humanity is because amputees could regenerate lost limbs in
a short amount of time. Axolotls are remarkable creatures
with their healing methods. If they lose a limb, they can
regrow an identical copy, the same goes with their spinal
cord, if you sever a piece, within 90 days it will have grown
back. If they are cut on one of their limbs, they can grow
another limb where the injury took place. Even cooler than
that, if you take a limb off one axolotl and put it on
another, it can reattach itself and is fully functional.
Following on from what I have just said, there are certain
types of axolotls that are able to glow in the dark and if you
put their limb on an albino axolotl, it’ll still glow, and you can
see the bone. A scientist was able to put the head of an
axolotl onto the back of another ant the test subject lived
for 65 weeks after. If some of these attributes were
transferred to people, we would be able to regrow limbs
again and again.
As mentioned in the beginning, cross species genetics has
been a part of a large amount of science-fiction and
superhero films. One of the most popular things I can think
of is Spider-man. He gets his powers from a genetically
modified spider, it gives him enhanced strength and
reflexes, enhanced senses and in Tobey Maguires case, he
can produce his own webs. He’s also sticky.
This is a great example for teaching people about this and
could have its benefits in real life because as well as
potentially improving the health of people, cross species
genetics could improve people mentally (mental health and
intelligence) as well as physically (strength and being more
agile).
I absolutely believe that cross species genetics is possible
but there doesn’t seem to be enough people who work on it
meaning it could take longer than we need it to which isn’t
the greatest thing considering cross species genetics could
be a massive scientific breakthrough for humanity and help
us evolve quite far. Even if people did work on it more than
they do now, it probably wouldn’t be possibly for a good few
years.