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The fact that we can apply these sort of therapies to an adult human who consists of millions upon millions of cells blows my mind. Having the ability to fix ou
by calrueb 5y ago
The fact that we can apply these sort of therapies to an adult human who consists of millions upon millions of cells blows my mind. Having the ability to fix our "buggy" genetic code while we are alive is amazing.
- hhjinks 5y agoYou're off by a _couple_ orders of magnitude. There are trillions of cells in a human body.
- hoseja 5y ago10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12
- correcthorse123 5y agoI think targetting tbe liver is far easier than most other tissues though, unfortunately.
- dclowd9901 5y agoGotta start somewhere...
- rorykoehler 5y agoMonkey patching in production.