Kian Sadeghi
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first heard Apr 2026
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And he went and he actually engineered human embryos, okay?
It's going on now.
In China?
In other parts of the world, too.
So...
Basically, what he did was he knocked out the CCR5 gene.
And his justification for knocking out this specific gene was that it would make the children basically resistant to HIV, AIDS.
That was what he said.
This is really interesting for a lot of reasons.
One is because you didn't need gene editing to do that.
You could have actually just done that with existing genetic technology that was much cheaper, much less expensive.
But even putting that aside, getting to the fundamental thing that you're articulating, which is the unintended consequences.
When you actually optimize for knocking out that specific gene, you're also opening up the susceptibility of that baby to other infectious disease.
Because what CCR5 does is it encodes for a specific immune receptor
that basically when destroyed, it makes it easier for other pathogens to basically infect you.
In other words, the dangerous side of this, to your point, is that balance, which is in trying to do something good, what he deemed to be virtuous, if you will, it actually potentially could have had very severe consequences on the children's health.
And so I think that's a very real, tangible example that we've seen of some of the dangers and the balancing act that is nature.
No, but that's something you presumably you chose to try.
I think, you know, sometimes you, you know, a broader force guides you to these things.
Yeah.
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