Roxanne Khamsi

There was a case that, again, in like the 90s where

There was a patient who just wasn't progressing as they thought that he would.

And it was very interesting because it was one side of his body was doing better than the other.

And then they did the kind of cellular analysis and they found that actually earlier in his development, one of his cells had actually acquired spontaneously a corrective mutation that essentially fixed the muscular issues that would have happened.

And it's kind of interesting as case examples, but what you have to understand is that this then points to new treatments.

It's amazing, right?

Uh-huh.

I mean, I look at our bodies as just…

Completely dynamic.

Like we are not static in any way.

It's almost like we're constantly playing the lottery in ourselves.

And sometimes we get lucky.

And I think what we can now do because we have the DNA sequencing technology is we can...

learn from that luck and we can replicate it and in fact you and i our immune systems benefit from the process of mutation that's one area in the body where mutations are critical to our health instead of detrimental yeah that's a good point i mean vaccines are really capitalizing off our ability to mutate right they wouldn't work if our cells couldn't do that yeah so um

First of all, I want to back up and say I am a woman who had a child at age 42.

Wow.

And I got a lot of concern amongst the doctors about my age.

And it's true that chromosomal abnormalities do increase.

So chromosomal abnormalities refer to like the big bundles of DNA that happen in our cells.

And sometimes they don't sort so perfectly well if an egg is from a woman who's older.