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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1257 points jbredeche | 2 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.51s | source
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efilife ◴[15 May 25 21:41 UTC] No.43999602[source]▶
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koala_man ◴[15 May 25 23:53 UTC] No.44000502[source]▶
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concordDance ◴[16 May 25 08:03 UTC] No.44002876[source]▶
What was the question? The rampant flagging here is quite annoying.
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1. efilife ◴[16 May 25 08:11 UTC] No.44002925[source]▶
My original comment said:

> But your child will die and that's a fact. Is it only ok for it to die after you?

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2. imacomputertoo ◴[16 May 25 13:58 UTC] No.44005618[source]▶
Is there more context to this question? I couldn't read the article because of the pay wall. But in isolation, this is a dumb question. All decent parents want their child to live as long as possible and be as healthy as possible. Is there something deeper you were trying to get at?