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medgremlin@midwest.social 2 years 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 2 years ago
medgremlin@midwest.social 2 years 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 2 years ago
medgremlin@midwest.social 2 years ago
Gene therapy is not the same thing as CRISPR. CRISPR is modifying the genome before the organism makes it past 1 cell.