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Nervous-Newt848 t1_ja5uxie wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Man successfully performs gene therapy on himself to cure his lactose intolerance by [deleted]

Gene therapy is as permanent as it gets... It may not necessarily be permanent because of the epigenome and because of poor dna replication... Dna replication isnt 100% accurate

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AwesomeDragon97 t1_ja62k4q wrote

Not all cells in the body are affected so it’s likely that the cells that got the gene died and were replaced by cells without the gene.

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