Dr. Andrew Huberman
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Rad.
Okay, awesome.
Now it's turning into like a science punk rock show.
So the...
Genetics, well, I think the big things in genetics are we're soon going to be in the place where we can do genetic... Well, right now, you can take human embryos and screen them for mutations by whole genome sequencing.
It's very inexpensive compared to a few years ago.
It's still expensive.
And you can do selection.
You can select out based on lack of mutations, maybe even based on over-representation of certain genes.
That's interesting.
It has some...
ethical considerations, but soon you can do CRISPR.
You could.
In theory, you could modify the genome of adults and certainly babies.
And so that's where we're headed.
It's already being done in certain countries.
It was done in China.
It was not.
looked upon kindly by the international ethics committees, but it was done, a mutation in the HIV receptor.
So those babies exist.