Editing genes can lose geniuses

According to The Daily Mail, author of the book "Modern Prometheus: Editing Human Genomes with Crispr-Cas9" Dr. James Kozubek said: there is a possibility that advances in genetics will not only help humans eliminate diseases such as cancer or schizophrenia, but also depriving geniuses such as Stephen Hawking.

Changing related genes, such as schizophrenia and depression, can reduce the likelihood of a Shakespeare or a new Einstein, because creativity and high intelligence are often associated with diseases. this.

It is known that writers often have bipolar disorder 10 times higher than the general population. In poets, the risk of bipolar disorder increases 40 times. According to James Kozubek, scientists tend to treat such disorders as issues that need to be addressed. But the goal of evolution is not only to achieve the ideal but to adapt to certain conditions.

Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

In his book, Dr. James Kozubek writes that the Crispr-Cas9 gene editing technology , currently being tested in the US and China to curb cancer, is not as useful as many people think. Using Crispr-Cas9 technology can "interrupt" any gene. However, according to James Kozubek, genetic variations related to mental illnesses, under certain conditions, may be necessary.

The gene editing tool called CRISPR (grouping of symmetrical repetitive short-chain clustered regular interspaced short palindromic repeats) was first discovered by experts at the University of California at Berkeley (USA) in 2012.

When they realized that DNA cutting and pasting mechanisms used by bacteria to protect themselves from virus attacks could become genetic modification tools in humans. In fact, CRISPR-Cas9 has brought to man the extraordinary power. For the first time in history, scientists have been able to modify, refactor, and even erase DNA of nearly every species including humans.

CRISPR-Cas9 has been developed by many biomedical projects to apply this technique to interfere with the genetic makeup of organisms. The project includes a plan to enforce the ability to carry pathogens in mosquitoes conducted by US researchers. Chinese researchers have aspired to intervene in CRISPR-Cas9 into human embryonic genes.