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#533 - Matthew Cobb - Should We Genetically Edit Human Life?

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Are You Concerned About the Gene Therapy?

I have a friend who recently went to a undisclosed Central American country to get gene therapy for myostatin inhibition done. This is the way that they're able to grow such insane muscle. I think it's a country which has autonomous zones within it, where medical ethics basically don't exist. And really, let's say there is a gene single gene, you can change single letter of DNA and now the mosquitoes are immune or they're going to become sterile. So if you do this, I mean, you can imagine all sorts of ways of doing this.

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