A short conversational excerpt from a YouTube video in which Robert Whitfield MD and a co-speaker discuss recent advances in gene therapy, especially CRISPR and epigenetic influences. They note the initially scary perception of gene editing but contrast that with potential life-changing therapies—such as correcting genetic blindness—and the ethical trade-offs involved.
I mean, it's.
Yeah. I mean, if you think about it, that's the most, like, next level gene therapy. Obviously, I was in school. You. You would just be like, wow, they could do any of that. That would be incredible. And we're getting pretty close.
It's crazy with medical advances. And, you know, I think years ago, when I heard about when it was. I feel like it was just called crisper, right? Like, where you just, like, change your genes, like, literally change who you are kind of thing, and how scary that was. And, you know, then they went on to explain, this is happening all day, every day in your environment. You're being affected by your genes, are being affected constantly epigenetically and that. And that some of these therapies. Now you think, well, you know, ethically, it's scary, but then you go, what if your son or daughter is blind? Like, and then you could do this gene therapy and make them not blind. It's like, wow, that's actually very, very cool. I mean, if we're getting into that realm, there's a lot of really great ways to apply it. And maybe this is the.
