Over the past 100 years, and much more so in the past 40 years, medical science has been able to save an increasing number of babies (and mothers) being born that would have not survived if they had been born at any other time in human history. Is this having an impact on the human gene pool?

What’s your opinion on this? Is curing hereditary diseases on a genetic level a scientific possibility? If so, why there’s a focus on supressing those diseases or their symptoms?

  • @lysy
    1•2 years ago

    Is there e.g. a country that started their, let’s say national medical science institute to tackle the topic from this other side? There must be at least one in this whole world, do you know of any?

    • @Tatar_Nobility@lemmy.mlOP
      1•2 years ago

      I was doing some digging and found the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC), an EU institution. It receives less than €60 million annually (I don’t think this is much?)

      There’s also the Chinese equivalent, the CCDC. This is their website https://www.chinacdc.cn/en/

      Edit: On a national level, I don’t know how much impact they have

      • @lysy
        1•2 years ago

        Thanks! So we need to get info if they’re doing medical studies on new drugs and therapies.