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29: Jamie Metzl - The Bio-Hacker will see you now, Ready or Not

The Portal

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Sickle Sell

Sickel sell is an adaptation that is a disease in an american context, given that we rid ourselves of malaria. It's evolutionary adaptation to modify hemoglobin so as to make it resistant. We have no idea what recessive mutations we are carrying that could be useful to face some threat that we have never faced as a species.

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