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Originally Posted by graciegirl
You are proceeding from a few illogical and/or unproven premises.
We are spending a lot of dollars on genetic research so that children who have congenital diseases can grow up and people with genetic diseases can grow old.
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We don't yet know if gene therapy will ever "cure" any congenital diseases. It may turn out to be like the war on cancer that was started many decades ago. Also, as far as I know, there's no proven link between genes and longevity. This is the subject of a thread I will soon post.