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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1162 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.296s | source
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morkalork ◴[15 May 25 19:55 UTC] No.43998684[source]▶
I think it was here a few years ago that I read a comment saying that sick children will be the Trojan horse for normalizing gene editing of humans, because who could say no to sick children, right? Well, guess it's here now, so how long utill the eugenics wars start?
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jjcob ◴[15 May 25 20:34 UTC] No.43999056[source]▶
It's not a slippery slope. Fixing defects is rather straightforward, since it's usually a single gene that needs to be edited.

If you want make your baby smarter, taller, or more handsome, it's not so easy because these traits involve 1000s of genes.

For this reason I do not think that curying diseases will lead to designer babies.

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GenshoTikamura ◴[15 May 25 21:50 UTC] No.43999677[source]▶
You're certaily unfamiliar with the term "incrementalism" and its workings
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1. tptacek ◴[16 May 25 03:29 UTC] No.44001581[source]▶
No, you're assuming that polygenic trait control "scales" like a sort or even a search algorithm, when there's some molecular genetic evidence that it may instead scale like a cipher key size.