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medgremlin@midwest.social 2 months 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 months ago
red tape doesnt take centuries to cut
medgremlin@midwest.social 2 months 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 months 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 2 months ago
Gene therapy is not the same thing as CRISPR. CRISPR is modifying the genome before the organism makes it past 1 cell.