Comment on Crispr gene editing shown to permanently lower hereditary high cholesterol

parpol@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Have you seen the documentary Altered Carbon? It covers this scenario.

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  • pikmeir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Great show. It’s a shame we never ever got another season.

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    • Hardeehar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If they ever do a second season, I’d love it if they refrained from trying to shoehorn in any radical changes.

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      • CurbsTickle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They did a second season, but there were three books.

        Excellent series

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  • Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Was that the one with a japanese guy in a white body that pronounces his own name like an American?

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    • 5C5C5C@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s explained by the muscle memory of the sleeve that he’s in. A mouth that has only practiced pronouncing American English will not have the neural pathways to pronounce words in a Japanese way. The consciousness and memories transfer but the sleeve doesn’t change.

      It’s a convenient plot device but also it fits the narrative cleanly.

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  • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love this. The somehow nuanced yet obvious humor that picks up on how extremists call pure facts of fiction documentaries.

    I’m going to start calling everything a documentary from now on.

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a so boring trope IMO. Like stop inventing insulin, heart transplants and cancer treatments, only the rich will get it!!

  What about being a wee bit excited for more and better treatments for the future?

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  • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What about being a wee bit excited for more and better treatments for the future?

    That’s covered in other threads. Right now we are being depressed by the grim reality that quality Healthcare is quickly becoming out of reach for a lot of Americans, and the Americans who might have access, can’t really afford it anyway.

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  • prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Because most of the people complaining, I imagine, live in the US.

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• Soulfulginger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What do you even mean by this? Those issues are important, but familial hypercholemia also affects 34 million people. A treatment like this would be helpful for people across all classes

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  • daftwerder@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think what they’re getting at is that most people wouldn’t be able to afford this treatment.

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    • Kalkaline@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is a problem now, especially in America where people avoid going to the doctor even though they’re pretty sure it’s cancer, but they are out of a job right now and have no idea how they would be able to afford treatment or the time off from work.

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      • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The solution could be something else than stopping research maybe?

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    • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well that’s a dumb position to take since nearly every technology is only for the rich when it was invented

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      • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The argument isn’t to not develop these things, the argument is to not let rich people become immortal while everyone else stays mortal, but spread the good among everyone.

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• Oderus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s basically the plot to Altered Carbon. Rich can afford new bodies, poor people can’t so the rich live forever and the poor die yound.

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