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Future technology is within reach. The day will come when all Chinese babies will have no genetic birth defects. The power of technology is astonishing.
Why bother with advanced medical science to fix a person's medical problems AFTER he/she is born? Why not fix the genetic anomalies while they are still an embryo? China is on the right path. Society's health care costs will be dramatically reduced when everyone is healthy genetically.
When the "gene editing" technology becomes mature, the Chinese government simply has to mandate all babies born at a hospital MUST have gene-correction for genetic diseases.
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Chinese researchers announce designer baby breakthrough | Fox News
"In one case, the technique zapped a mutation that causes favism, a condition in which consumption of fava beans causes destruction of red blood cells.
In another case, it fixed a mutation that causes the blood disease beta-thalassemia, a group of inherited blood disorders that affect about one in every 100,000 people.
Another expert told New Scientist the results were compelling.
'It does look more promising than previous papers,' Fredrik Lanner, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, told the publication."
Why bother with advanced medical science to fix a person's medical problems AFTER he/she is born? Why not fix the genetic anomalies while they are still an embryo? China is on the right path. Society's health care costs will be dramatically reduced when everyone is healthy genetically.
When the "gene editing" technology becomes mature, the Chinese government simply has to mandate all babies born at a hospital MUST have gene-correction for genetic diseases.
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Chinese researchers announce designer baby breakthrough | Fox News
"In one case, the technique zapped a mutation that causes favism, a condition in which consumption of fava beans causes destruction of red blood cells.
In another case, it fixed a mutation that causes the blood disease beta-thalassemia, a group of inherited blood disorders that affect about one in every 100,000 people.
Another expert told New Scientist the results were compelling.
'It does look more promising than previous papers,' Fredrik Lanner, of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, told the publication."
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