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2018-04-16 Science & Technology
Breakthrough: Researchers fix Alzheimer's gene
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Posted by Percy McCoy4369 2018-04-16 04:07|| || Front Page|| [6 views ]  Top

#1 But why would I actually want to remember 60 years of stupid ?
Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-16 07:39||   2018-04-16 07:39|| Front Page Top

#2 To be able to smirk over the fact you got away with it?
Posted by Mercutio 2018-04-16 08:49||   2018-04-16 08:49|| Front Page Top

#3 What's the problem?
I forget.
Posted by Skidmark 2018-04-16 08:51||   2018-04-16 08:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Most of us will never see this, it'll take 20 years of testing before getting tentative approval. Except in Europe.
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839 2018-04-16 09:02||   2018-04-16 09:02|| Front Page Top

#5  Most of us will never see this, it'll take 20 years of testing before getting tentative approval. Except in Europe.

No sense in upending the actuarial data, and then there's the negative impact felt by big pharma. Yes, 20 years should be about right.
Posted by Besoeker 2018-04-16 09:10||   2018-04-16 09:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Unfortunately Dr. Huang forgot where he put his notes on the process.
Posted by Glenmore 2018-04-16 09:26||   2018-04-16 09:26|| Front Page Top

#7 20 years? Which means Nancy will miss it. Well, there's taxidermy and bunny eyes - just pining for the fjords, she is.
Posted by Procopius2k 2018-04-16 09:39||   2018-04-16 09:39|| Front Page Top

#8 A journey of 10007305 (20*365.25) days begins with but a single step. At least that first step has been taken.
Posted by Percy McCoy4369 2018-04-16 09:55||   2018-04-16 09:55|| Front Page Top

#9 Shanghai, mainland China, will likely have treatment centers in 5 to 10 years, Whether or not it is safe and effective, well...?
Posted by magpie 2018-04-16 10:10||   2018-04-16 10:10|| Front Page Top

#10 The so-called structure corrector has been shown in previous research, led by the same Dr. Huang, to change the structure of APOE4 so that it looks and behaves more like the inoffensive APOE3.

Not that template guided protein-folding sh*t again!
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-04-16 11:46||   2018-04-16 11:46|| Front Page Top

#11 So wouldn't that make the recipients a GMO?

Genetically modified organism - of course it would!
Posted by Bobby 2018-04-16 12:03||   2018-04-16 12:03|| Front Page Top

#12 And after 20 years of treatment, 1 person in 100,000,000 will develop cancer. So the treatment will be banned.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia  2018-04-16 12:06||   2018-04-16 12:06|| Front Page Top

#13 
Very impressive. Even a simple, one-celled amoeba is sooooooo complex.

Roger
Posted by Roger 2018-04-16 15:16||   2018-04-16 15:16|| Front Page Top

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