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• medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  As a widely available, cost-effective treatment? Almost certainly not. We have yet to successfully genetically modify a human being and there’s a metric ton of legal and ethical red tape to deal with before we can even try.

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  • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    red tape doesnt take centuries to cut

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    • medgremlin@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not necessarily, but the advancement of the technology and refinement of the technique are not progressing very quickly and since it’s so far away from human application, there’s not a lot of money/investment in it.

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        there are clinical trials for gene therapy right now.

        i can see arguing that it isnt close, because it doesnt look close, but id bet it will come in decades rather than centuries.

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