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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] crispr<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222'>Like the musical song goes: this could be the start of something big. bill w<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal'>BillW, you need to offer them a clue. These young people have never heard of Tony Bennett or Andy Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:normal'>If you listen, check out that band, my goodness, SMOKING hot:<o:p></o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZG9-eatr8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICZG9-eatr8</a><o:p></o:p></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222'><o:p> </o:p></span></h2><h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222'><a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=be594d5bfb&e=d520e39c16" target="_blank">CRISPR for sickle-cell, one year on</a><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#222222;letter-spacing:.15pt'>As the one year anniversary of her receiving a ground-breaking treatment for sickle-cell disease approaches, it’s good news for Victoria Gray — <a href="https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=41b2ab62c0&e=d520e39c16" target="_blank">the first person in the United States to undergo CRISPR gene therapy to treat a genetic disorder</a>. </span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;letter-spacing:.15pt'>…<span style='color:#222222'>“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</span>…<span style='color:#222222'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;letter-spacing:.15pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;letter-spacing:.15pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2011/03/remembering-robert-bradbury.html">http://www.sentientdevelopments.com/2011/03/remembering-robert-bradbury.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Robert has been gone nine years, but Milan Cirkovic is apparently alive and well. This article is from less than 2 yrs ago:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-attitude-toward-aliens-proves-we-still-think-we-re-special">https://getpocket.com/explore/item/our-attitude-toward-aliens-proves-we-still-think-we-re-special</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>He’s another one of our visionaries who has lived to see it unfold.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'>spike<o:p></o:p></p><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p style='mso-margin-top-alt:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:7.5pt;margin-left:0in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>