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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

(www.nytimes.com)
1162 points jbredeche | 3 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.482s | source
1. voidUpdate ◴[16 May 25 14:07 UTC] No.44005708[source]▶
Could this be used to actually change the DNA of transgender people?
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2. albrewer ◴[16 May 25 14:59 UTC] No.44006314[source]▶
Even if it did, wouldn't the development of the wrong genitials for their preferred sex make an edit like this meaningless? The existence of XX AMAB and XY AFAB people goes to show that it's more about what happens in utero than what genes you have after birth.
3. idontwantthis ◴[16 May 25 18:35 UTC] No.44008541[source]▶
That’s an entire chromosome throughout every cell in the body. This is a single gene change in one type of cell.

No.