Some wild speculations about the future potential of gene therapy:

→ Remove scarcity genes, e.g., no urge to eat junk food
→ Require little to no sleep
→ Require little to no exercise to stay fit, e.g., via myostatin inhibition
→ Enhance the immune system
→ Flush out compounds on demand, e.g., caffeine

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I work in gene therapy, and these are not really focuses of the industry presently.  Rather than focusing on improvement from the norm, we are instead working on fixing genetic-based deviations from the norm; i.e., fixing genetic-based blindness, etc

I think alongside actual gene therapy it’s the machinery that’s involved which is also being targeted which is interesting ASO’s for conditions like dmd are interesting, and I think gene therapy will be very useful for treating the myriad of rare diseases we have