Bring it on!!!
Autoimmune disease? GONE!
Acne? GONE!
Don’t like your eye color? CHANGE IT!
For rich by rich, only rich get.
Thats not really true.
The US is an exception but generally, the cost of therapies becomes commercially viable with the passage of time.
For example, our 2 year old daughter just had her DNA profiled because she has a few manageable, yet ongoing developmental deficiencies. Her DNA markers will guide her treatment.
When I was a child this type of treatment was sci-fi, and when it was invented you could have said “by rich for rich” or whatever.
Cost and price are two different things. Insulin is cheap to make but people die from not being able to afford the sticker price.
… In the US, yes
Not outside the US
The US is an exception
Now, sing with me: “Only in America…”
Shit’s going to get pretty weird imo. Hopefully it isn’t used for eugenics purposes (it probably will be, let’s be honest). I don’t think that people should be able to change so many things that they become unrecognizable, but I can understand changing a few things per person, voluntarily, obviously.
I believe in bodily autonomy. People should be able to do whatever they want to their own body.
Allowed, sure, just don’t think it’s a good idea to completely change who you are. I want humans to be recognizable as such. I’m more worried about what parents will be doing to their children, that’s where the eugenics shit becomes a problem. Getting rid of “undesirable” traits and whatnot.
There are a lot more problems in trying to create the infrastructure to enforce sanctioned uses of any readily accessible technology than there is in the use of said tool. The people who want to do the most harm inevitability wind up in the oversight position, while society tends to create enforcement mechanisms at a social, interpersonal level organically already.
WDYM “for eugenics purposes”?
Look up designer babies.
That’s not really “eugenics” as I understand the term but whatever.
Watch gattacca
Don’t want to stop being cruel and violent? Want to keep committing atrocity against vulnerable individuals while destroying human-supporting environments on Earth, for absolutely no practical benefit to yourself? Well good news! Investor-driven medical research is here to protect you (and only you) from the consequences of your monstrous choices!
What are you talking about?
Where do you think dietary cholesterol comes from?
Well, it can come from palm/coconut oil for example, it doesn’t only come from animals, and vegans with familial hypercholesterolemia want you to shut the fuck up.
Your body makes it’s own cholesterol, and so the main driver of your cholesterol level is genetics. Quote from the AMA:
“Primarily, your cholesterol profile is genetic.”
And enjoy the 5 cancers you just caused yourself by editing other genes that happen to contain the targeted sequence !
Is this the first human trial, or just the first officially sanctioned one?
IIRC there was that one guy who experimented on himself and cured his lactose intolerance.
… found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY
Nearly 8 years ago.
I feel obligated to mention that he doesn’t modify his own genes, he infects himself with a modified bacteria that produces lactase.
you can just eat yogurt to get the same results
Wait is that true? I would totally eat yogurt if it meant I could enjoy ice cream again.
First-in-human just means it’s the first time that specific therapy is being tested on humans instead of animals (e.g. mice, dogs, monkeys), and the primary objective of the trial is to test that it’s safe for use in humans. It doesn’t refer to the concept of gene editing or lowering cholesterol.
was safe and reduced LDL cholesterol by nearly 50% and reduced triglycerides by about 55%
From the referenced article
What is the point of your comment?
Thought emporium?
Yep thought emporium.
But I think the Chinese scientist that experimented on babies did it few years before that even.looks like same year, 2018, and thought emporium published first by 8 months
We lowered your cholesterol. But you now have horns and crave the taste of human flesh.
I don’t understand why you used “but”, where it should clearly be “as well as”…
Nerds will do anything not to go for a jog
With what “side” effects?
Why would you lower cholesterol?
The body literally makes it because you need it. People with high cholesterol live longer…
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11901585/
Youd wanna lower arterial plaque so cholesterol doesnt get stuck?
An arterial calcium scan is the best indicator for heart disease etc.
Not cholesterol.
I have high cholesterol. I can send you some if you want. Promise it will make you live longer, it says so on this lemmy comment…
Is it butter or olive oil? I want to taste good when I die
You need to reach out to the scientists to let them know! You could save lives with your insight!
No dude, you’re WAAAAAAY overstating what that paper says.
I’m sorry to inform you that you have fallen for online propaganda. Cholesterol definitely is bad for you.
