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Onset is about six months. >> wow. >> so if your partner has it and you were to have another child -- >> my kid could have it. >> yeah. >> how would i change that gene? >> well look at the hexasequence here and look at the particular mutation. heres the error. >> wow. >> literally thats the one letter thats wrong? >> yes. its a screw-up. were going to print out the correct copy. >> thats nuts. how would i get that into my body to fix that problem? >> theres viruses. theres hijacking your immune ...

>> thats crazy. >> so you can take out whats existing and put in what you want. >> dna is the building block of all life. nothing living on earth exists without it. its the unique genetic code that makes me me and you you. but our dna also contains mistakes, or mutations. and just one of those mutations can cause anything from a minor health problem to a deadly disease. austin is creating technology today that could change all of that in the future. >> so well look at your 23 m.e. test results. ...

Of technology, because weve improved the earth. what they call a cancer. i call that great. john: and they appreciate it because its beautiful, and no people should be around. you say? >> historically there are no people, there the whole thing is a scam. they think the grand canyon should exist and no one should see it and contemplate the landscape in our yard while we are border line starving to death. thats a primitive life. i want a life where i can enjoy nature and the man made. john: the sa...

Ive gone a lot of places because of oil and technology and weve improved the earth. thats what they call a cancer. i call it great. >> and they appreciate it because its beautiful and no people should be around. you say -- >> historically there were even people there. so the whole thing is a scam. they think the grand canyon should exist and no one should see it and we should be able to contemplate the landscape in our yard while were borderline starving to death. thats a primitive life. i want ...

Negative, the double, the triple, all that. what is it? >> triple negative breast cancer is a rare subtype of breast cancer. its only 20% of diagnosis. so most breast cancer is fueled by hormones, whether that be estrog estrogen, progesterone, and this type of breast cancer is negative for all three. those type of breast cancers that are hormone positive have targeted treatment and people generally have better prognosis. and the problem with triple negative is we dont have targeted treatment and...

De blasio says he is reversing bloombergs poor decisions. "the new york times." scientists found a rare gene mutation that protects people from getting type two diabetes despite their age and their weight. the gene reduces the risk of getting diabetes by two-thirds. drug companies hope to use the mutation to develop new medications but it could take about ten to 20 years to get that drug off the market. >> the "chicago tribune." jimmy fallen take is an icy dip in lake michigan yesterday and di...

Decreasing alcohol and smoking, you have to understand he could be in a category where he is at risk. we have to do all the lifestyle changes and probably he needs treatment. >> for life? >> probably, it is a silent killer. we need to figure the cause. >> we hope he get as second opinion. >> how about having children later in life for guys? >> first of all, there is decreasing testosterone as men get older and they are let fertile. men, too, can have kids after the age but it is harder as with w...

Alcohol and smoking, you have to do all the lifestyle changes, but on top of that, probably he needs some treatment. >> for life. >> definitely because its a silent killer. >> we hope he will get a second opinion on that. thats great. how about having children later in life, dock? >> there is decreasing sperm count. men can have kids after the age of 40, but its harder and harder. for men, its harder and harder, but the decline is more gradual. on top of that, the cells that make sperm are divid...

2 million people from 1973 to 2001, a lot of men. and they found they were much more likely over age 45 to have adhd in their kield, bipolar disorder 12 times more likely. why would that be? ill tell you why because sperm dwoids all t divides all the time. the more it with divides the more likely to have a mutation. we cant prove it because we dont know what gene causes autism and adhd. we dont know. but it has a genetic factor to it. >> is this independent of a womans age at all? no matter what...

Could be done in a healthy way, me why we should be excited. >> this is exciting to even begin the discussion about whether we can cure disease and whether we can prevent disease and different ways to use modern medicine to help the health of our offspring. this is not a story about designer babies. this is saying people with a mutation might have the opportunity to have healthier mitochondria and provide power for their cells to be a healthy baby. i dont want to turn it into sensationalism. the...