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by 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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You're off by a _couple_ orders of magnitude. There are trillions of cells in a human body.
10^6 * 10^6 = 10^12
Monkey patching in production.
I think targetting tbe liver is far easier than most other tissues though, unfortunately.
Gotta start somewhere...