Peter H. Diamandis

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Columbia University researchers successfully edited a PCSK9 gene.

This is, you know, your LDL, your bad cholesterol, and an HBG gene for hemoglobin in embryos in vitro.

So, you know, this is opening up the conversation.

I remember when I was at the Whitehead Institute doing my medical degree,

And the first gene editing capabilities of restriction enzymes came out.

A lot of hand-wringing around embryo editing, zygote editing.

successfully edited the ccr5 gene in two young girls that were brought to term healthy to make hiv resistance so the question is are we going to start you know when this gets reliable enough are we going to start editing our kids um

You know, my son, Dax, just did a project on this at school.

And his point was we give our kids the best food, the best education, the best friends, the best clothing.

Why not start with the best genes?

So I am curious what your thoughts are, guys.

Yeah, obviously, you know, shadows of eugenics come to mind.

But at the end of the day, if you're getting rid of hereditary disease or if you've got some, you know, if you're a family below five foot and you want your kids to be taller, you know, the ethics of this are going to evolve and morality around this is going to evolve and societal norms are going to evolve.

Salim, where do you come out on this?

And ethics change, right?

Because if you remember a while ago, IVF was considered immoral in the early days.

And now it's it's enabled millions of families to be formed.

You know, there's a company I love called Nucleus.