Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by Something1234 on Saturday June 08, 2024 @06:51PM
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Wait until they have kids. The deafness gene will be passed along. Soon enough we'll be like the cars with the hardware without the software or the locked features.
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Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by bitcurious on Saturday June 08, 2024 @06:57PM
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Fortunately won't be a big issue, as:
>OTOF-related deafness is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner. If both parents are known to be carriers, each sib of an individual with OTOF-related deafness has at conception a 25% chance of being deaf, a 50% chance of having normal hearing and being a carrier, and a 25% chance of having normal hearing and not being a carrier.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by dfadsadsf on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:53PM
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) combined with preimplantation genetic screening (PGS) is becoming increasingly mainstream. This advanced technique allows us to select embryos with healthy genes, thereby ensuring that babies are born healthy or at least reducing the risk of genetic diseases. Very expensive in US but is getting very affordable in Eastern Europe and Asia.
Another alternative is selective abortions after early genetic testing (though ethic and morale concerns here are huge).
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by houseplant on Sunday June 09, 2024 @01:47AM
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that crazy pro-natalist fascist couple that's been all over the news lately do this. They pick and choose which of their embryos are the most fit overall, and/or which have blond hair I'm sure, and plan to have as many of them as possible. Seems a shame to go through all that, only to beat your kids in front of a newspaper reporter and give them neuroses that'll likely make them rebel against you, but I'm sure if they can invest in crypto stocks they must be very good at predicting the future right?
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by patmorgan23 on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:23PM
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How is this any different from people who suffer from other genetic disorders that we have treatments for? Or people who just suffer from a chronic disease that requires regular treatments/medication for them to stay alive/health? (HIV, Diabetes, etc)
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by BriggyDwiggs42 on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:43PM
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Deaf people can already have kids
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by 8f2ab37a-ed6c on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:05PM
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Any different from people needing glasses?
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by tithe on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:52PM
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And we'll cure them too.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by david38 on Saturday June 08, 2024 @06:55PM
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We have this already. As a species we are susceptible to many diseases which we have to take vaccines for, every generation.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by pfannkuchen on Saturday June 08, 2024 @07:41PM
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I don't think susceptibility to viral diseases like measles is typically regarded as a genetic defect, is it? Any more than being flammable is a genetic defect, anyway.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by roywiggins on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:18PM
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There are a few people who are genetically immune to HIV, but it's quite rare. Whether everyone else is therefore genetically deficient is sort of a matter of perspective, I suppose.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by teaearlgraycold on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:00PM
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Damn. Might as well just kill ourselves because our children inherit our problems. My parents need glasses, I’ll need glasses. Fuck.
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Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by zmmmmm on Saturday June 08, 2024 @08:42PM
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Apart from the other points people have made, it's worth noting that these days parents can avoid having children with inherited genetic disorders through IVF. While there will always be a component of spontaneous mutations resulting in genetic disease, we may approach within a couple of generations a state where most inherited disorders actually disappear or reduce to vastly lower prevalence over time.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by nicolas_t on Sunday June 09, 2024 @02:21AM
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Some backward countries (like my own France) forbid that due to concern over eugenics.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by jubalfh on Saturday June 08, 2024 @09:36PM
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ah, an eugenicist. and yet, if i stated that eugenicists should be eliminated from the gene pool, you'd be outraged.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by lazyasciiart on Saturday June 08, 2024 @10:22PM
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Obviously: for a start, since there’s no genetic test for eugenicism, you’d have to wait and eliminate them as adults. They may have already reproduced by then, but there’s also no clear mechanism for inheritance so we don’t even know if that is a problem. If they adopted children do we consider those kids to have inherited it?
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by ThrowawayTestr on Saturday June 08, 2024 @11:16PM
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The fear of being beholden to a company for your health is not one to dismiss so easily.
Re:Gene therapy restores hearing to children with inherited ...
by jubalfh on Sunday June 09, 2024 @11:54AM
(#40625292)
get a better healthcare system.