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While technically possible, that option isn’t really available to most people. Tho I suppose 17 hour brain surgery with gene therapy is also not available to mo
by kennywinker 1y ago
While technically possible, that option isn’t really available to most people. Tho I suppose 17 hour brain surgery with gene therapy is also not available to most people, so fair enough.
Anyway, they’re just describing the heritability of the disease there.
- senkora 1y agoAn optimal society would provide no-cost embryo screening and IVF to couples with the gene for HD, because that cost is certainly far <50% of the lifetime cost of living with HD in treatment costs, lost income, and lost QALY's. I hope that we can work towards such a society. (And of course this research is still worth doing to help the population who already have the illness)
- software-is-art 1y agoThats actually the case in New Zealand