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medgremlin@midwest.social 1 week agoAs 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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
red tape doesnt take centuries to cut
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.
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.
medgremlin@midwest.social 1 week ago
Gene therapy is not the same thing as CRISPR. CRISPR is modifying the genome before the organism makes it past 1 cell.