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New gene therapy reverses hearing loss in 4 children...It replaced their mutated genes with healthy ones.
FreeThink ^ | November 6, 2023 | By Kristin Houser

Posted on 11/07/2023 11:41:39 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 11/07/2023 11:41:39 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: joe fonebone; SamiGirl; gitmogrunt; Freee-dame; ROCKLOBSTER; ryderann; Red_Devil 232; ...

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?????...................

2 posted on 11/07/2023 11:43:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Eh?


3 posted on 11/07/2023 11:43:36 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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4 posted on 11/07/2023 11:44:34 AM PST by Taffini ( Mr. Pippen and Mr. Waffles do not approve and neither do I)
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CRISPR kids!


5 posted on 11/07/2023 11:58:50 AM PST by struggle
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Bionic hearring? It would be bionic tinnitus for me.
6 posted on 11/07/2023 12:01:45 PM PST by mountainlion (Live well those that did not make it back.)
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Curing deafness, blindness, handicaps? There are activists against that.

GENE THERAPY: A THREAT TO THE DEAF COMMUNITY?
https://impactethics.ca/2017/03/02/gene-therapy-a-threat-to-the-deaf-community/

Will curing the deaf lead to ‘cultural genocide’?
https://bioedge.org/enhancement/will-curing-the-deaf-lead-to-cultural-genocide/

Why Deaf People Oppose Using Gene Editing to “Cure” Deafness
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-deaf-people-oppose-using-gene-editing-to-cure-deafness


7 posted on 11/07/2023 12:10:42 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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The great thing about these medical experiments on Chinese children is that it gives these kids a break from their regular jobs of making I-Phones. It must get monotonous doing that repetitive assembly work on a daily basis.


8 posted on 11/07/2023 12:23:26 PM PST by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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Great for kids, maybe.

Not much use for us geezers with loss from damaging noises?


9 posted on 11/07/2023 12:24:33 PM PST by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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It possibly could be..................


10 posted on 11/07/2023 12:25:43 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Thanks for the information , RB.


11 posted on 11/07/2023 12:36:08 PM PST by lysie
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Being profoundly hearing disabled I find this interesting. Rush Limbaugh said it best. “A hearing disability is one where people get mad at YOU.” So true.


12 posted on 11/07/2023 12:42:12 PM PST by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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“Because this gene is too large to fit into the virus particle, the scientists split it into two parts.”

So real scientists (not federally funded ‘yes’ men) can divide a gene into parts, piggy-back the parts on a virus, inject the whole mess into the body where something tells each virus ‘A’ to find a virus ‘B’ and assemble the gene parts back together.

To me that is truly mind-blowing.


13 posted on 11/07/2023 1:13:31 PM PST by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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....and they are Chinese.................


14 posted on 11/07/2023 1:17:12 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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Do these genes make me look fat?......................


15 posted on 11/07/2023 1:17:40 PM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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16 posted on 11/07/2023 1:32:11 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I only wonder if fetal stem cells are involved.


17 posted on 11/07/2023 1:44:04 PM PST by Dr. Sivana ("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
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Not being a doctor, I have asked if gene therapy might be used to cure people. Gotta replace the defective genes and that could be done using modified viruses or something like it.

Gotta replace all of the defective genes in the body, I guess. So that would take a long time.

But maybe we could increase the life expectancy of humans that way. “And if we could do it, should we?”


18 posted on 11/07/2023 2:47:34 PM PST by dhs12345
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Or maybe a new type of virus that is developed to be able to carry the whole genome. And would it be selective or a complete genetic sequence.

And don't allow it to escape because no telling what it might do in a different human.

19 posted on 11/07/2023 2:50:27 PM PST by dhs12345
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The real deal will come when they can regrow the cilia in the inner ear of older people with hearing loss.

I’ve actually seen phase two clinical trials for procedure so its not too many years off


20 posted on 11/07/2023 2:53:46 PM PST by ckilmer (ui)
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