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The 21st centry may lead to the definitive elimination of humans, of desease i can only imagine their numbers going up, not down.

"that's where CRISPR editing comes in". To edit the DNA of congeniality diseased people? I doubt the business will focus primarily on this category of patients, unfortunately. but I still hope the worst will be avoided when/if using this tech kind of tech.




I suspect FDA regulations will have to be redesigned a lot to make most DNA editing treatments economically possible.


If they approved the sort of recent treatment they approved, for that scale of deployment (billions of individuals within a year) it wouldn't surprise me they will approve anything, given enough lobbying. No worry to have with FDA becoming an obstacle.




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