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Josiah Zayner is doing everything he can to bring gene-editing to a laboratory near you.
Josiah Zayner is doing everything he can to bring gene-editing to a laboratory near you. (Photo: Justin Kaneps)
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Can鈥檛 Hack It? Gene-Hack It.

Josiah Zayner is doing everything he can to bring gene-editing to a laboratory near you.

Peak performance has always been about getting as close to your genetic potential as possible. The limits of your training, nutrition, and recovery are dictated by your DNA. But what if they weren鈥檛? What if you could change the genetic code you were born with? As sequencing DNA gets cheaper and faster, and gene-editing tools get more precise and easy to use, we鈥檙e progressing toward a world where we might all have perfect DNA for our chosen sport鈥攁nd be able to change it whenever we want. But getting there will be risky. In this final installment of our four-part look at the science of performance, 国产吃瓜黑料 editor Christopher Keyes looks at the efforts of Josiah Zayner, who is taking a damn-the-torpedoes approach to doing everything he can to bring gene editing to a laboratory鈥攐r even a garage鈥攏ear you.

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