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CELLS: Siddhartha Mukherjee on the Breakthroughs That Are Revolutionizing Medicine

The Next Big Idea

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The Line Between Healing and Augmentation Is Going to Get Blurry

Don't you think the distinction between healing and augmenting is going to get blurry? It's already blurry. We're likely to have some real decisions as a species about how much augmentation we think is okay. The lines are blurring, I have some strong lines about it, and I can talk to you about them. If we stray outside these boundaries and try to augment ourselves outside these, the triangle, I think we get into trouble.

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