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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1167 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ecshafer ◴[15 May 25 19:58 UTC] No.43998721[source]▶
As a father, the idea of being told my 1 week old baby is going to die would be my worst nightmare. The fact these doctors and scientists saved this childs life is a monument to modern medical science. This is absolutely insane. Hopefully the child doesnt need a liver transplant, but this is a great leap forward.
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efilife[dead post] ◴[15 May 25 21:41 UTC] No.43999602[source]▶
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bloomingeek ◴[15 May 25 23:44 UTC] No.44000458[source]▶
Not only a hurtful question, but a stupid one as well. Well done.
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efilife ◴[16 May 25 00:12 UTC] No.44000603[source]▶
Care to explain why it is stupid? And what's hurtful about it, too? Deciding on a child, you KNOW it's going to day at some point
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1. tombert ◴[16 May 25 00:51 UTC] No.44000807[source]▶
I don't really know what you're going on about? We're all going to die, we all know that that's going to happen, but none of us want to suffer and most of us would like to live relatively long lives.

I am not a parent but I think if I did have a kid I would try everything I could to keep my child alive and minimize pain in my child's life.