this post was submitted on 30 Aug 2022
10 points (81.2% liked)

Science

13191 readers
30 users here now

Subscribe to see new publications and popular science coverage of current research on your homepage

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
MinutePhrase@lemmy.ml
10
Is modern medicine affecting the human gene pool? (www.thenakedscientists.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.ml to c/science@lemmy.ml
17 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

What's your opinion on this? Is curing hereditary diseases on a genetic level a scientific possibility? If so, why there's a focus on supressing those diseases or their symptoms?

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Jonathan12345@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It's possible to fix genetic disorders, but it's untested as of now. It has been tested actually, but with mixed results because cancer insertions.