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Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] jarfil@beehaw.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I want an eye replacement with a few extra opsins, and some EM sense like what birds have. Eternal life could be nice too, would make a lot of people reconsider their long term plans.

[–] Geodad@beehaw.org 1 points 3 days ago

I want an eye replacement with a few extra ~~opsins~~ options, and some EM sense like what birds have

That's possible, but our brains haven't evolved to interpret anything outside of the visible spectrum.

Hypothetically, we could guide human evolution by introducing such tech into newborn babies for several generations.