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Genomic Prediction’s Stephen Hsu: “Making superhumans will be possible”

The Times Tech Podcast

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We Need to Beat China, We Need to Make Better Humans

i think it is true, and i guess i'm well placed to know this. If you talk to the modo asian couple they are much, much less likely to have a negative reaction to it then random couple in the united states or in the u k. And not to leap even further ahead, but we're not very far from being able to do safe and effective gean editing. So instead of selecting best out of ten or best out of 20 embryos, you may just go and make the changes you want in ten or 20 years. I will be surprised if we can't.

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