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calrueb
1818 days ago
The fact that we can apply these sort of therapies to an adult human who consists of millions upon millions of cells blows my mind. Having the ability to fix our "buggy" genetic code while we are alive is amazing.
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hhjinks
1818 days ago
You're off by a _couple_ orders of magnitude. There are trillions of cells in a human body.
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hoseja
1818 days ago
10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12
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rorykoehler
1818 days ago
Monkey patching in production.
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correcthorse123
1818 days ago
I think targetting tbe liver is far easier than most other tissues though, unfortunately.
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dclowd9901
1818 days ago
Gotta start somewhere...
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