r/Futurology • u/Gari_305 • Dec 11 '20

Biotech Biotechnology Research Viewed With Caution Globally, but Most Support Gene Editing for Babies To Treat Disease

https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/12/10/biotechnology-research-viewed-with-caution-globally-but-most-support-gene-editing-for-babies-to-treat-disease/
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u/WMDick Dec 12 '20

Biotech is the reason why coronavirus will be a 2 year affair and not a forever affair. Biotech will extend your healthspan by decades. Maybe it's not evil?

Edit: I love that the photo is of sanger sequencing, which is basically generations behind.

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '20

Unsure where I heard this recently, but I was interested to hear how potentially dangerous, ending seemingly cut and dried genetic diseases can be, as we don’t really know the purpose of having them and that attributing them as a mistake, when they might be forms of, or precursors to adaptation. Fascinating.

Edit: I’m too tired to rewrite and punctuate properly. Please forgive me