313. Matthew Cobb — As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetic Age
The Michael Shermer Show
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Gene Therapy
I think the way you deal with genetic diseases that are not treatable is by eliminating, is preventing the features being implanted. Well, no, I mean, something like personalized medicine. So now I have my genome, you sequence it, I get a brain tumor and they go, okay, so this is the exact thing we're going to inject in there. Like what Jimmy Carter had, right? They injected the virus into a tumor. And somehow the virus knows how to turn the cancer cells off. Yeah. Okay, but I mean, there's not much plot there, Karl. No, that's right. Yes. Come the revolution, we'll all get strawberries and cream.
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