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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: 0.209s | source
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palisade ◴[16 May 25 05:32 UTC] No.44002113[source]▶
Does this mean when they grow up, their own offspring will also have this defect and require a correction? And, if so, does this mean it is now introducing this defective gene into our gene pool?

I know this is an issue with caesarean section. It is becoming more prevalent because those who require it are surviving, making it more likely to happen in their offspring.

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1. Tade0 ◴[16 May 25 15:17 UTC] No.44006506[source]▶
Research is inconclusive regarding what exactly causes this increase.

We know that infants are generally larger than 50 years ago and one of the factors which trigger birth is the inability of the mother's metabolism to support further growth of the fetus.

That, combined with the fact that all over the world availability of nutrition is much better than half a century ago points to this being the culprit.