Anytime I throw out ANY form of food, I get #yelled at by my #mother for "wasting food."
EVERY. TIME.
I throw out green cheese, I get yelled at, I throw out green bread, I get yelled at. I throw out anything left in the fridge for more than two weeks, I get yelled at.
NOW, guess who just yelled at me that they had to #cleanout the #crisper in the #fridge, because everything in it was rotten?
The correct guess starts AND ends with "M."
My [PODCAST] listen today: “Steven Johnson & Michael Specter on the Future of Life” (27 April 2024) by #TheNextBigIdea
https://pca.st/episode/9e27737a-b378-4178-b29e-85cbed836c76
#future #biology #DNA #crisper #AI #edtechSR #GeekOfTheWeek #LifeHack #virology #immortality
Last month, longtime New Yorker staff writer Michael Specter released a brand new audiobook with our friends at Pushkin. It’s called “Higher Animals: Vaccines, Synthetic Biology, and the Future of Life,” and it’s an inspiring account of the emerging field of synthetic biology — a field where scientists combine chemistry, engineering, and computer science to develop new drugs and therapies for treating diseases of all sorts. This month, Steven Johnson, a frequent guest on this show and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine, is publishing a brand new audiobook of his own. It’s called “Immortality: A User’s Guide,” and it was produced by ... us! (You can get a copy here.) The premise is this: we might well be on the cusp of a revolution in the science of aging and we are not prepared for the consequences. Lots of similarities, right? So we decided to get Steven and Michael on the horn to talk about breakthrough technologies, radical life extension, and the future of our species.
In historic decision, FDA approves a CRISPR-based medicine for treatment of sickle cell disease
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a powerful 👉treatment for 🔸sickle cell disease🔸, a devastating illness that affects more than 100,000 Americans, the majority of whom are Black.
The therapy, called "Casgevy", from Vertex Pharmaceuticals and CRISPR Therapeutics, is the ⚠️first medicine to be approved in the United States that uses the gene-editing tool 🔹CRISPR🔹, which won its inventors the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 2020.
The approval marks the first of two potential breakthroughs for the inherited blood disorder.
The FDA on Friday also approved a 👉second treatment for sickle cell disease, called "Lyfgenia", a gene therapy from drugmaker Bluebird Bio.
Both treatments work by genetically modifying a patient’s own stem cells.
Until now, the only known cure for sickle cell disease was a bone marrow transplant from a donor, which carries the risk of rejection by the immune system, in addition to the difficult process of finding a matching donor.
#casgevy #lyfgenia #crisper #Sicklecelldisease #sicklecell
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-approves-cure-sickle-cell-disease-first-treatment-use-gene-editing-rcna127979
#EmbryoStudies #CRISPER #TooRisky #bioethics
"Why CRISPR babies R still too risky — While society grapples with the social and ethical implications of heritable genome editing, technical obstacles still abound."
"Heritable human genome editing remains unacceptable at this time,” “Preclinical evidence for the safety and efficacy of heritable human genome editing has not been established, nor has societal discussion and policy debate been concluded.”"
Crisper modified stem cells for the rods and cones in your eye, like better color vision or even infrared genes borrowed from a mantis shrimp. Damage the back of the eye and add the modified stem cells via needle or other delivery mechanism. Allow to heal, may be blind for a few days or weeks.
Now you have super enhanced vision.
May also be used to repair damaged sight.
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