Ep. 56: Minicircle Chief Scientist on the Promise of Gene Therapy to Extend Life, Roatan's Potential as a Frontier Hub for Biotechnologists & Overcoming the FDA's Bureaucratic Obstacles
Stranded Technologies Podcast
The Importance of Gene Therapy
I feel like not for everything like for rare diseases it doesn't make always sense to test it on yourself. If something is only viable in sick people then you can only administer to sick people. That's not the case for every type of medicine and so a lot of of these self-experimentations you actually do see on healthy individuals even as long as the certain safety factors and parameters are respected. I don't think it's very as dangerous or like you know playing God as much as people think oftentimes you're using the tools he gave you right? So with gene therapy there was this idea that you can go in and fix something that's either not performing as well as it possibly
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