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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1257 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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1. Sabinus ◴[16 May 25 03:05 UTC] No.44001472[source]▶
The medical profession allocates scarce resources based on the amount of quality-adjusted life years it will bring.

Humans see value in living life, so cutting a life short is worse than a life that would be ending soon anyway.