2mo ago

Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment

nytimes.com

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Well, I'm not sure that
It is too soon to know if he can stop taking the medication completely, but the dosage is greatly reduced. And he is well enough for the team to start planning to discharge him home from the hospital. He is meeting developmental milestones and his weight is now in the 40th percentile for his age, but it is not yet known if he’ll be spared a liver transplant.
counts as "healed." (emphasis mine)
This certainly sounds like a promising medical advancement, and the article goes out of its way to point out the extent to which federal funding made it possible. But the hed oversells the current state of affairs.
I want an eye replacement with a few extra opsins, and some EM sense like what birds have. Eternal life could be nice too, would make a lot of people reconsider their long term plans.
- I want an eye replacement with a few extra ~~opsins~~ options, and some EM sense like what birds have
  That's possible, but our brains haven't evolved to interpret anything outside of the visible spectrum.
  Hypothetically, we could guide human evolution by introducing such tech into newborn babies for several generations.