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Getting real about curing polygenic brain disease

Thanks to the molecular biology revolution, it is conceivable that over the next two decades, humanity will cure most monogenic diseases — those caused by a single faulty gene. If the trend of increasing efficacy and specificity of gene editing technologies continues, the “undruggable” genome may one day become “mostly…

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Getting real about curing polygenic brain disease
Getting real about curing polygenic brain disease

Jan 13

Why I don’t care about the singularity

I remember having my first serious existential crisis when I was about five or six. It dawned on me that one day I would cease to exist and that seemed really, really sad. What could be sadder than not existing anymore? For a few nights, as I remember it, my…

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Saul Kato

Saul Kato

Co-founder and CEO, Herophilus. Assistant Professor, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco.

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