EstimateCivil t1_j9d82qd wrote on February 21, 2023 at 1:44 AM

Reply to comment by pumpkin20222002 in When will genetic engineering be available for psychiatric disorders? by undefined2937

Bro China has been using crispr for years. They even have a study released on human students. they saw huge IQ rises after the crispr injection.

I don't think removing the genes or altering them will work 💯 though.

9 heavily suspect that depression is mostly environmental and minimally brain chemistry..it's true that you can have a disorder that prevents correct uptake of serotonin or dopamine. In this case sure let's crispr it out. I still don't think it will "correct" the disorder.

pumpkin20222002 t1_j9dbf9h wrote on February 21, 2023 at 2:10 AM

Have a link to that study, i could only find this guy https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50944461.amp

Frankly a virus that could be programed to target a specific gene, is probably where some governments would go, imagine a weapon wiping out only targeted people based on genes

EstimateCivil t1_j9dbpc4 wrote on February 21, 2023 at 2:12 AM

Nah they won't do that it's possible but why would they?

The human race in in a major decline of birth rates. That is likely the single biggest factor in our species survival.

Complex-Knee6391 t1_j9epmcm wrote on February 21, 2023 at 11:24 AM

That's the sort of thing that ends in 'oops, we didn't realise 30% of one of our sub-populations shares the same genetic markers as our targets, because humans are sluts that have been travelling and fucking around for millennia'