Rachael Pells, "Genomics: How Genome Sequencing Will Change Healthcare" (Random House, 2022)
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Is It Possible to Edit the Human Erm?
Genomics is changing the way we think about our health. Scientists can now see which mutations are responsible for certain conditions. This means they can potentially change that particular bit of coding, and find better ways of treating it. The technology is obviously fairly new, but there are lots of different applications of it already. It's still something that, yes, a case of the sciences are maybe a little bit further ahead than our ethical and moral undersstanding of it.
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