[pcchristie]

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.

[samus]

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.

[trollian]

We were just talking about Kurt Cobain's death from suicide with my daughter with CF. We'll take the meds thanks.