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Latest cartoon on Alabama decision that IVF embryos are people
#theorcracy #reproduction #ivf #health #medicine #science
The Plight of the Pangolin
My favourite animal changes all the time. When I was younger, I cycled through various large, majestic cats such as tigers, jaguars and snow leopards. At one point, I considered the polar bear amon…Palm Oil Detectives
The good news: We have a breakthrough cure for sickle-cell disease, using CRISPR and gene-editing technology.
The bad news: It’s owned by a private company that will charge $2.2M for a course of treatment.
Pharmaceutical research should be publicly-funded, and its results should go directly into public domain, where private providers can compete on price for manufacture and distribution. For a fraction of the money we spend on missiles and remote military bases, we can save so many lives instead.
“FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR”
#healthcare #medicine #capitalism
FDA approves cure for sickle cell disease, the first treatment to use gene-editing tool CRISPR
The FDA approved a new treatment for sickle cell disease. The therapy is first to use the ground-editing tool CRISPR.Berkeley Lovelace Jr. (NBC News)
Dr. Margaret Chung was born in CA in 1889. As a med student, she wore masculine clothing & referred to herself as “Mike.” She became the first Chinese American female physician & applied to be a medical missionary, but was rejected due to her race.
In the 1920’s, Chung founded one of the first Western medical clinics in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She advocated for Chinese Americans & pushed for the inclusion of women in the US military. https://www.nps.gov/people/dr-margaret-mom-chung.htm #HistoryRemix #history #medicine
Dwindling tropical rainforests mean lost medicines yet to be discovered in their plants
About 80% of the world population relies on compounds derived from plants for medicines to treat various ailments, such as malaria and cancer, and to suppress pain. Our future medicines are likely …Palm Oil Detectives
Fludarabine increases nuclease-free AAV- and CRISPR/Cas9-mediated homologous recombination in mice - Nature Biotechnology
Fludarabine-induced DNA damage pathways enhance the in vivo efficiency of homologous recombination-based gene editing.Nature