Talk:Human genetic enhancement/Archive 1

Archive 1

Preventing diseases

Are gene therapies also used to prevent the possibility of breast cancer ? See Breast_cancer#Research. Also, are there any gene therapies for Alzheimer and other diseases which occur (or worsen greatly) at advanced age?

Info on dna immunization needs to be improved. See https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2016/04/22/synthetic-biologists-fight-snake-venom-engineered-dna/

Macular degeneration might be prevented ? Tropical diseases ? STI's ? Modification of genes promoting addiction (substance abuse, i.e. alcohol, ... ) ? Some native americans for instance are unable to break down alcohol, resulting in less alcohol abuse. Needs looking into

Behavior modification in relation to increasing altruism, empathy ?

--Genetics4good (talk) 11:53, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

Other

Perhaps the example of wisdom teeth can be given at other section ? I remember the human jawbone structure and teeth alignment has changed due to changes in nutrition (see See Wisdom_tooth#History). This is without a doubt regulated by genetics. Hence, changes can be implemented on those genes responsible for this, hereby eliminating the need of wisdom teeth extraction, eliminating possibility of excessive teeth and a range of other issues normally requiring dental/jaw surgery.

Also, other things to mention are (research on) genetics of body type/phenotype, body hair growth, tissue (& limb) regeneration, genital (labia) shape/size, eyes (perfect vision), ...

Can the human microbiome (gastrointestinal tract) or the human itself (T-cells, ...) be genetically modified to destroy microplastics that have been consumed ? Might be possible I think as other organisms also have mechanisms to break down (certain) plastics, see Plastisphere#Degradation_by_organisms. This could then benefit health as the microplastics no longer linger in the body (and microplastics can trigger certain cancers). Perhaps info on that can be added to article.

--Genetics4good (talk) 12:05, 27 October 2020 (UTC)

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ArshadBegum 1, Thank you, you are most welcome to edit the article.
You might have noted that several more accounts made significant edits to the article in the last day or two. It appears that it was some sort of educational programme, because they were all new accounts. People being part of education assignments in editing Wikipedia should start from here: Wikipedia:Education program.
In any case, we have a range of policies, for instance in medicine-related articles we should not make biomedical claims based on primary sources.
Happy editing! — kashmīrī ^TALK 21:11, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Transhumanism

Should there be content relative to transhumanism under the ethics section that shows both sides of the perspective? ArshadBegum 1 (talk) 23:01, 19 December 2023 (UTC)

ArshadBegum 1, I'd think so, it would offer a good context. — kashmīrī ^TALK 21:11, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

Genetic engineering

I think it provides a good entrance before explaining CRISPR

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