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While interesting the 13 people could have a mosaicism or a mistake could have been made. There is no way to tell as the study was anonymised. So until another
by planetjones 11y ago
While interesting the 13 people could have a mosaicism or a mistake could have been made. There is no way to tell as the study was anonymised. So until another study is done which offers traceability back to the 'mutants' we'll never know if there is anything useful here or not.
- TheSpiceIsLife 11y agoWe should use this information to genetically engineer disease resistant people. I say "we should" because if we don't the <insert technically advanced nation of your choice here> will. Would it be possible to use this data to modify the DNA of a sperm / egg cell combo? Are we there yet?
- pmalynin 11y agoI read somewhere that some team already was able to create viable embryos with modified genetic materials albeit the embryos were terminated after reaching a certain stage of replication.
- cariaso 11y agomost recently http://www.nature.com/news/second-chinese-team-reports-gene-editing-in-human-embryos-1.19718 http://www.nature.com/news/second-chinese-team-reports-gene-... added http://snpedia.com/index.php/Rs333 http://snpedia.com/index.php/Rs333 for HIV immunity. the embryos were pre-non-viable.