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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1163 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.413s | source
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Traubenfuchs ◴[15 May 25 20:20 UTC] No.43998917[source]▶
Are the edited genes inherited, or the original ones? Does the previous question have an answer that depends on the babies sex?

From an evolutionary perspective it‘s interesting how the further medicine gets, the more we inherit genes unfit for life without medical support.

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1. breakyerself ◴[15 May 25 20:28 UTC] No.43998990[source]▶
I'm sure we'll be editing these diseases out of the germ line at the same time in the not too distant future.
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2. EvanAnderson ◴[15 May 25 21:14 UTC] No.43999406[source]▶
Speaking as a person whose friend died at 21 from complications related to cystic fibrosis I would like to see these diseases edited out of the germ line.