A few friends and I are going to fund a $400k research study on whether we can get a taste of this superpower for everyone. We have some friends that run a gene editing lab at Harvard who are willing to run the experiments. Key points to validate: (1) Determine at what stage of organism development you need to intervene to get the superpower. We know having these mutations from birth gives you sleep superpowers, but if you edited someone as an adult, would they get equal benefit or is there something about the wiring of your brain during development that is required? And when in development? embryonic, toddler, teenage? Need to run some studies in animals to figure this out. (2) Some of these short sleeper genetic variants my be easier to drug than others (with RNAi, epi editors, base editors, etc). So we need to run some quick experiments to select which are optimal.

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