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Atheios569 t1_ix4nzaj wrote

I’m surprised it’s taken this long. I’ve been waiting for this headline since 2014 when I first heard of CRISPR.

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Vergil25 t1_ix60ze8 wrote

Ethics.

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AsuhoChinami t1_ix68yyq wrote

Yes, it's very morally ambiguous as to whether treating cancer and other diseases is a good thing

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Vergil25 t1_ix6os13 wrote

Code of ethics on whether we "play god" as they say in medical terms.

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AsuhoChinami t1_ix72f3u wrote

I know, but that's extremely, extremely dumb and slowing down medical research or application for that reason is the furthest thing in the world from ethical.

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Vergil25 t1_ix7j602 wrote

it really is. we could accomplish so much more if the ethics board was lax

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r0cket-b0i t1_ix7tx9k wrote

I would argue that this CRISPR and what we had in 2014 is far from being the same, the initial version was a great concept but did not live up to standards, even current iteration only shows double digit improvement but not in all people and is not what we hoped to see when we first read about slicing and re programming, however I am hopeful that there is an acceleration, baby steps but we are increasing the impact...

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Atheios569 t1_ix7xxzv wrote

Oh indeed, improvement is marked in time, but was anticipating it a bit earlier, but not right after it was announced.

It’s just obvious that the logical way to fight cancer is on a genetic scale, and CRISPR or something similar would be the way to accomplish that.

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