Can you edit DNA?
There are medically accessible genetic recombinant viruses that can splice new genes into DNA. This treatment has had minimal effectiveness in treating blind persons. There are some therapies for cancer involving taking white blood cells out of the body, adding a grabber arm gene that then expresses itself, injecting them back in, letting them have babies, update rest of immune system and then kill the cancer. It is highly precise, only works on certain malignancies, and is quite pricey.
To cut a long tale short, the technology known as sharper is now available. Evolutionary genetic mutation is on the road. People will someday figure out how to reset genetic material back to a newborn condition, at which point humans will no longer die of old age. The difficulty is to accomplish it for every single cell in the body, because the body simply does not enjoy being struck with viruses that splice DNA.
What you consume can influence your children's epigenetics; consider the Irish potato famine and its consequences. The Irish have struggled with obesity for two generations. However, you cannot edit your own DNA without extensive clinical procedures, virus injections, and arduous study. Today, most gene editing is done using a technology called Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR), which was adapted from a bacterial mechanism that can cut away particular portions of DNA. CRISPR is being used to create genetically modified organism crops.
