• Question: do you think it would be possible to isolate and mix the genes of patients to make them less vulnerable to certain health risks?

    Asked by anon-223297 to Valerio, Sreejita, Sam on 19 Nov 2019.
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      Sreejita Ghosh answered on 19 Nov 2019:

      It is indeed an aspect of genetically engineered babies. However there are some ethical concerns about this.
      One can extract genes from patients and create a “hybrid” gene model and test whether this hybrid model is less vulnerable. It sounds like Mendelian inheritance but with multiple ‘parents’. However I am not an expert in this area. I don’t know if injecting this hybrid (if the hybrid turned out to be more immuned to diseases), would be accepted by the body.

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