Baby Is Healed With World’s First Personalized Gene-Editing Treatment
The work, they said, began decades ago with federal funding for basic research on bacterial immune systems. That led eventually, with more federal support, to the discovery of CRISPR. Federal investment in sequencing the human genome made it possible to identify KJ’s mutation. U.S. funding supported Dr. Liu’s lab and its editing discovery. A federal program to study gene editing supported Dr. Musunuru’s research. Going along in parallel was federally funded work that led to an understanding of KJ’s disease.
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Get ready for wealthy superhumans.
What's the over/under for the Eugenics War kick off?
Humans probably won't go extinct. drastic reduction in population is likely though.
I give it 6 years tops.
The bell riots have been pushed back a bit, but it's only a matter of time.
Gattaca speed run
https://imgur.com/a/p7pyhnW
Or genetic handicapping. Don't want the poor folk having children that are too healthy or they might actually be better off than their parents.
This isn't news. We were custom editing jeans way back in the 80's. My sister had a bedazzler.
Yeah, for the last century we've been using starch in laundry to alter jeans and make them feel CRISPR
This along with rna vaccines are one of the few technologies that give me hope for a bit of improvement. If it can become common.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think RNA vaccines predate covid. At least conceptually. I think the covid vaccine was the first to scale it successfully.
Yeah and the big thing is this allows for much more targeted vaccine production. Has massive promise in cancer treatment.
I wrote a term paper on genetic vaccines in 2006. It's been a while.
Blue!? Can you help me find the DEI hire?
An Indian guy or a barely functional senior citizen who had brain damage from a parasitic worm.
Hmmm....
Can I phone a friend?
Finally. CRISPR has been in development for so long I was worried we'd never see it save at least one life.
Yay now our rich corrupt masters will live even longer!
There's 0% chance this becomes accessible to the regular person under our current global oligarchy
Lucky kid got fish Linux installed at the factory. Good for him.
Magic
Science
...Although at the rate we are going it may well be referred to as such in the stories told about "the before times" as people huddle around the fire.
Magical science?
Life is just a bit more fun when you can say magic
Did you say Magnets?
How do they work?!
That sounds awesome, but why was it necessary to tattoo a blowfish on his cheek??
They had to tattoo something for the treatment, and the choice was between a blowfish or a penis.
What kind of sicko are you that you want this toddler to have a penis tattooed on their face?
Not a funny one, but still a...
Attempt at humor for sure. Looking back not a great joke. I deleted it
It took place after Trump was inaugurated, therefore it's his success.
No /s, because you know he's goign to take credit for it
Trump's the kind of guy who will burn down the barn and then take credit for providing a great BBQ.
Begun, the Eugenics Wars have...
Wrong series, you have.