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72. What’s Stopping Us From Curing Rare Diseases?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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CRISPR Clinics

Theodore: I think we as a community owe it to the folks out there whose genetic changes we're identifying is potentially dangerous or disease driving. How can we make developing cures for rare genetic diseases profitable and accessing those cures affordable? He says he sees a future where CRISPR is deployed to repair genetic defects in a way that's relatively commonplace. "That's a world I want to live in," Theodore says.

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