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Re:Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3M Breakt... by pcchristie on Saturday September 16, 2023 @08:21PM (#37540230)
Another interesting link is that between mental health issues (schizophrenia, bipolar) and "elite" creativity and the risk of losing the latter if we can ever gene edit the former out of our genome.

Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about this in The Gene.

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Re:Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3M Breakt... by trollian on Saturday September 16, 2023 @10:53PM (#37541047)
We were just talking about Kurt Cobain's death from suicide with my daughter with CF. We'll take the meds thanks.
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Re:Life-changing cystic fibrosis treatment wins US$3M Breakt... by samus on Sunday September 17, 2023 @06:32AM (#37543525)
Fortunately, it seems that there is a huge set of genes that affect intelligence, which hopefully makes it impossible for the forseeable future to develop a gene-therapy for them. Diseases like cystic fibrosis are low-hanging fruits compared to that.
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