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If most diseases are caused by errors in DNA, cannot we make mandatory DNA screening, detect such errors, and warn potential parents not to make children? Event
by codedokode 1y ago
If most diseases are caused by errors in DNA, cannot we make mandatory DNA screening, detect such errors, and warn potential parents not to make children? Eventually this could lead to these diseases simply disappearing, and studying invalid DNA sequences seems to be much cheaper than researching the treatment for the disease.
- sorcerer-mar 1y agoThe mapping from DNA to health outcome is unbelievably chaotic/high-cardinality, then mixed in with various environmental/social/cultural factors that don’t show up in DNA at all. Drugs are in fact how we come to understand this chain of causality, piece by piece. So yeah, what you describe is obviously the dream (hand waving through some ethical considerations) but we just don’t know anywhere close to enough about the biology.
- unnamed76ri 1y agoI guess you’ve never met teenagers.