Re:Baby Is Healed with First Personalized Gene-Editing Treat...
by rob74 on Thursday May 15, 2025 @11:01PM
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That's all very cool, but there are also articles like this one: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/20/trump-nih-cu... - I'm not able to read the Times article because it's paywalled, but as other commenters have mentioned, this research was funded by the NIH, which the Trump administration is currently in the process of defunding. So, if further progress along this road will be made, it'll probably be much slower and less likely to be in the US.
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Re:Baby Is Healed with First Personalized Gene-Editing Treat...
by cnity on Friday May 16, 2025 @04:30AM
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Or, it means that funding will be secured in the private sector. Basically by investors that focus on revenue streams (read: extremely expensive private healthcare).
Re:Baby Is Healed with First Personalized Gene-Editing Treat...
by rob74 on Friday May 16, 2025 @01:36PM
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Yeah, maybe for stuff like this which (now) has direct applications, yes. But for basic research (and it took decades of basic research on genetics, gene editing etc. etc. to get to this point)? No way...
Re:Baby Is Healed with First Personalized Gene-Editing Treat...
by top_sigrid on Friday May 16, 2025 @06:02AM
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