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medgremlin@midwest.social 1 week agoNot 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.
umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
thats not true at all. crispr gene therapy was just approved by the fda for sickle cell syndrome.
medgremlin@midwest.social 1 week ago
While that gene therapy does exist, it is not the same as what is being done here. The offspring of these mosquitos will have this same modified gene. The offspring of the recipients of the Sickle Cell gene therapy will not have the modified gene. We have the ability to alter a single human for their lifespan, but we do not have the ability to alter a human in such a way that their offspring will carry the same modification.