Sequencing all of the interesting parts of the human genome is $300-$400 and a few weeks wait.
The bioinformatics to find a simple mutation and design a crispr fix or one of the other gene therapy methods is about 1 grad student week.
I am talking about garage hacking and there sure are a bunch of risks and chances of ineffective treatments, but researchers used to take a lot more risks and I can see folks with degenerative, terminal, or otherwise very severe conditions being happy to say fuck it let's try something.
And with an appetite for risk and a fuck it attitude, you can try something for less than the cost of a used toyota.
And as mainstream treatments develop, custom gene editing as a fully safe therapy option is going to become common.
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Sequencing all of the interesting parts of the human genome is $300-$400 and a few weeks wait.
The bioinformatics to find a simple mutation and design a crispr fix or one of the other gene therapy methods is about 1 grad student week.
I am talking about garage hacking and there sure are a bunch of risks and chances of ineffective treatments, but researchers used to take a lot more risks and I can see folks with degenerative, terminal, or otherwise very severe conditions being happy to say fuck it let's try something.
And with an appetite for risk and a fuck it attitude, you can try something for less than the cost of a used toyota.
And as mainstream treatments develop, custom gene editing as a fully safe therapy option is going to become common.