Roxanne Khamsi
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 9 Jun
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is as you and I have talked about, mutation can be a good thing.
So if you try to globally slow it down, you might be doing a disservice to the body.
You might be slowing down its ability to defend itself, perhaps.
For sure.
So once you're able to look at the body at the single cell level, you can really understand at a granular level which cells are mutating and which ones aren't.
And you can really compare and contrast.
If you really want to count, let's say, what proportion of cells have a mutation, that single cell sequencing is super helpful.
So, you know, I'm not a huge proponent of things like smoking.
And I was talking to my son's babysitter about why not to smoke.
And then I was thinking about what I learned.
And that's if you smoke a cigarette, you have mutations that happen in your body.
But now scientists can see, thanks to these technological advancements,
that smoking a cigarette causes different mutations from, let's say, chewing tobacco.
And I think what this points to is we're going to now be able to dissect how behaviors interact with our DNA at a whole new level.
And also, so when we see a mutation has corrected an inherited disorder, we can go back and say, hey, can we develop a drug based on that mutation that can help other people that didn't spontaneously correct in that way?
And we're finding that that actually is
the path that some researchers are taking with liver disease already.
I definitely think that writing this book has changed how I think about genetic disease.
So when I started my career...
When people talked about patients with genetic disorders, there was a lot of othering, right?
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