[ExI] crispr

[William Flynn Wallace]

What I thought I was going to get:  "What do you mean 'musical song'?  What
other kind is there?

Bennett is still with us - age 93.  Been doing duets with artists of just
about every genre.

I have read that cystic fibrosis may also be fairly easily fixed with
CRISPR.  Hope so.

bill w


On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 12:00 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *On Behalf Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
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> Like the musical song goes:  this could be the start of something big.
> bill w BillW, you need to offer them a clue.  These young people have
> never heard of Tony Bennett or Andy Williams. If you listen, check out
> that band, my goodness, SMOKING hot:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZG9-eatr8  CRISPR for sickle-cell, one
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> <https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=be594d5bfb&e=d520e39c16>
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> As the one year anniversary of her receiving a ground-breaking treatment
> for sickle-cell disease approaches, it’s good news for Victoria Gray — the
> first person in the United States to undergo CRISPR gene therapy to treat a
> genetic disorder
> <https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=41b2ab62c0&e=d520e39c16>.
> …“It's hard to put into words the joy that I feel — being grateful for a
> change this big. It's been amazing,” said Gray…
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> Bill It is my regret that you never got a chance to meet Robert Bradbury.
> This is exactly what he was talking about when he predicted 20 yrs ago at a
> dramatic moment at Extro4 that in vivo genetic modification would someday
> be possible.
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> http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2011/03/remembering-robert-bradbury.html
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> Robert has been gone nine years, but Milan Cirkovic is apparently alive
> and well.  This article is from less than 2 yrs ago:
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> https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-attitude-toward-aliens-proves-we-still-think-we-re-special
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> He’s another one of our visionaries who has lived to see it unfold.
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