Our DNA is what makes us who we are – at least the physical aspects. Not going to talk about nature v. nurture, instead I am going to revel in the fact science is moving apace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DNA editing happens, as this article explains, but prime editing takes it to another level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ve also been watching a program about eugenics, which one might argue this gene editing could lead to. However, I believe there is a subtle difference and would still mean folk would be born but without issues or stigma associated to their physical being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See the BBC news item about prime editing: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-50125843<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n See the first episode of the BBC iPlayer series about eugenics: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/m0008zc5\/eugenics-sciences-greatest-scandal-series-1-episode-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our DNA is what makes us who we are – at least the physical aspects. Not going to talk about nature v. nurture, instead I am going to revel in the fact science is moving apace. DNA editing happens, as this article explains, but prime editing takes it to another level. I’ve also been watching … Continue reading “DNA editing – the latest”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rmpaterson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}