The problem is that lots of you see social issues from the lens of your privileges and not from the realities of your class, and that is why class solidarity is nothing to you.
As a geneticist I am slightly obsessed with this man. He was sentenced to prison for genetically altering embryos to make them immune to HIV. It sparked a debate on how far is too far when it comes to gene editing. Love that heβs out now
Gene editing therapy before birth will be priced at a few thousands of dollars, affordable to most families.
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He Jiankui was sentenced because he forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into implanting gene-edited embryos into two women. Experts agree there are safer and more effective ways to prevent HIV infections, and that his experiment had little to no benefit.
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It was more about the ethics of genetically editing embryos than it was about what he actually did. If this becomes mainstream, what stops rich people from having βbetterβ children.