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[llien]

Gene editing isn't "that difficult" and has been done numerous times with an embryo (a single cell, most of the time not human), but this time it is a grown up human being:

The experiment was done Monday in California on 44-year-old Brian Madeux. Through an IV, he received billions of copies of a corrective gene and a genetic tool to cut his DNA in a precise spot.

“It’s kind of humbling” to be the first to test this, said Madeux, who has a metabolic disease called Hunter syndrome. “I’m willing to take that risk. Hopefully it will help me and other people.”

Signs of whether it’s working may come in a month; tests will show for sure in three months.

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[Lord Thrappleper The 49th]

Man I really hope this works for the patients sake. Hunters is fucking awful.

 

[Kimawolf]

This bodes well for the future. In the next 10 to 20 years medical technology will be vastly different

 

[Teran]

I wonder if they'll be able to fix aging damage with this kind of tech

 

[Alebrije]

 

[JordanN]

We MMO's now

 

[Kimawolf]

I wonder if they'll be able to fix aging damage with this kind of tech

Definitely. Its coming sooner than later for sure.

 

[Robot Carnival]

do you want super zombies!? because that's how you get super zombies!

all jokes aside thou, this IS pretty cool and hopefully will lead to the cure to lots of disease and health issues.

 

[Quazar]

Awesome news. Medicine is really going to take off in next 5-15 years. Exciting times.

 

[DonMigs85]

Awesome news. Medicine is really going to take off in next 5-15 years. Exciting times.

Of course it'll likely be out of reach for the poor.

 

[Agent_Carnage]

Getting one step closer to creating our real life Khan Noonien Singh....

 

[Insane Metal]

Damn, this is awesome, I really hope it works.

GMH - Genetically Modified Humans.

 

[black_13]

I feel like any new technology this can be both good and bad. As long as we keep its usage in check I'm all for it.

This seems like real medical breakthrough as opposed to other forms of medicine were they just try to cover things up that also have lots of side effects.

 

[Slayer-33]

Поздравляю, ваша мысль просто отличная

Wat

 

[Marky Mark]

We MMO's now

Next level lol @ your macro image

 

[finowns]

Crazy how science has come so far.

The DNA process going on in our bodies is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A

That DNA doesn't 'mess up' more often is very surprising to me.

 

[mckmas8808]

Crazy how science has come so far.

The DNA process going on in our bodies is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A

That DNA doesn't 'mess up' more often is very surprising to me.

Yeah this is cool.

 

[Anjelus_]

Crazy how science has come so far.

The DNA process going on in our bodies is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_tYrnv_o6A

That DNA doesn't 'mess up' more often is very surprising to me.

The super cool thing about this to consider, is that our bodies have been doing this looong before we knew they were doing this.

So, while it's a correct analogy that we use, and we should use it because it helps us to understand, it's obviously not strictly speaking accurate to call them "molecular machines" or "programs." Rather, the machines and factories and even computer networks that we make are themselves the analogies; the stuff we've been building has, this whole time, been faint echoes of what's been happening in nature. We're the ones that are imitating when we build factories and write codes, and we didn't even know it until recently.

And the stuff we build, cool as it is, comes nowhere near nature. Even our most epic hard drive doesn't store a fraction of the information content our bodies can.

 

[Drazgul]

First time publicly, you mean.