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by peyton 24 days ago
Unfortunately you’d have no power to correct it. Even if such a thing were possible. I hope that changes.
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You have no power to correct something with gene editing, true, but there may potentially be preventive action you can take. It's all largely hypothetical today anyway, most things you care about (e.g. cancer, Alzheimer's) you can't usually tell very reliably if you're going to get from a DNA test.
Are you talking about time travel? I don't think that would help.
More like genome editing.