CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?????...................
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?????...................
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CRISPR kids!
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
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.
Great for kids, maybe.
Not much use for us geezers with loss from damaging noises?
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.
“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.
I only wonder if fetal stem cells are involved.
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?”
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
AAV-Mediated Gene Therapy Restores Hearing in Patients with DFNB9 Deafness
Uses an adeno-associated virus.