I do not agree, or at least this needs to be more qualified. I definitely agree that genetics long term has more potential, though right now there’s one massive problem: Pretty much all of the breakthroughs impact the gametes only, and thus only alters your offspring.
There needs to be a lot more progress on the somatic gene editing before it’s at all used in practice.
Indeed, the benefit for already-born people is harder to forsee. That depends on more-distant biotech innovations. It could be that they come quickly (making embryo interventions less relevant) or slowly (making embryo interventions very important).
I do not agree, or at least this needs to be more qualified. I definitely agree that genetics long term has more potential, though right now there’s one massive problem: Pretty much all of the breakthroughs impact the gametes only, and thus only alters your offspring.
There needs to be a lot more progress on the somatic gene editing before it’s at all used in practice.
Indeed, the benefit for already-born people is harder to forsee. That depends on more-distant biotech innovations. It could be that they come quickly (making embryo interventions less relevant) or slowly (making embryo interventions very important).