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Readers of The Niche here will know I’ve been skeptical of “3-parent” (aka “mitochondrial transfer”) technology and I’ve discussed some of the risks it carries. There are in addition some segments on anti-aging and “ 3-parent babies”. Nicholas and his family were a moving part of the show too.
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It also features some rigorous clinical trial efforts like gene therapy for vision loss for Jackson (which, good news, preliminarily seems to have potentially helped him see better) as well as Spinraza an oligonucleotide therapy for spinal muscular atrophy, which was not successful for the patient in the series, Nicholas Piazza, who tried it and reportedly had a side effect. The show goes through everything from biohacker attempts to make genetically modified dogs to an effort to possibly extinct malaria-causing mosquitos in a region to a literal stab at human DIY HIV therapy. I wondered at times while watching if the producers would have been better served by focusing on fewer topics as they didn’t always all coherently come together. The show covers a lot of ground, maybe too much for a four-part series. However, we need to be disturbed because the reality here is unsettling in some ways and what’s going on out there is real whether we know about it or not. It’s a mind-bender that is captivating and at times disturbing.
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Overall, I give the series 3.5 stars out of five. After watching episode one, for example, I would have given it only 2.5-3 stars out of five mainly due to too much hype in that episode, but later episodes were closer to the 4-5-star range. At various times watching it, I went from disliking some of it to finding other parts quite compelling. Unnatural Selection takes the viewer on an emotional and intellectual rollercoaster ride. So what’s my big-picture take on this show? Netflix series Unnatural Selection with Jackson Kennedy pictured here, one of the few people who gets a kind of happy ending in the show.
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He ultimately gets the treatment and we see his initial therapeutic response. Unnatural Selection follows his story as he and his family find out that a new FDA-approved therapy might help him. He also happens to have the random misfortune of two mutant copies of a gene that together are causing him to lose his vision. One patient thread is the story of a wonderful little boy named Jackson Kennedy. The show is an interesting mix of personalities and stories from patients, scientists, biohackers, and more. Today’s post is a review of Unnatural Selection, the new Netflix science docuseries focused on CRISPR and other disruptive genetic and reproductive technologies.