Geoffrey MillerVerified account

Yes. Tiny minds offended by Target making their toilets gender agnostic or controlling women’s bodies should be 20x more concerned abt updapting their #science awareness and #ethics boundaries to cover advances in gene editing or pricing medicine out of reach of poor.

Have you seen Unnatural Selection on Netflix?

I'm convinced this is the next technology that will change the course of history.

I don’t think it will be nearly as useful as we think, between gene combinations and epi-genetics, I think it will only work for a handful of things.

Wrong. All these crispr articles directed at Lay people almost never mention off target effects. It's all marketing hype.

The limiting factor to gene editing at scale will still be definitively linking causative genotype to phenotype, which is is easier said than done. Still doesn’t take away from the fact that it’s an amazing technological leap.

Still, few cases such as single gene disorders are very well understood. However, we may never have a good understanding about why those genes were selected for until the editing is done at scale.