June 23, 2020
By Rob Stein
Victoria Gray, who underwent a landmark treatment for sickle cell disease last year, has been at home in Forest, Miss., with her three kids, Jadasia Wash (left), Jamarius Wash (second from left) and Jaden Wash.
Like millions of other Americans, (click here) Victoria Gray has been sheltering at home with her children as the U.S. struggles through a deadly pandemic, and as protests over police violence have erupted across the country.
But Gray is not like any other American. She's the first person with a genetic disorder to get treated in the United States with the revolutionary gene-editing technique called CRISPR.
And as the one-year anniversary of her landmark treatment approaches, Gray has just received good news: The billions of genetically modified cells doctors infused into her body clearly appear to be alleviating virtually all the complications of her disorder, sickle cell disease.
"It's wonderful. It's the change I've been waiting on my whole life," Gray told NPR, which has had exclusive access to chronicle her experience over the past year.
Sickle cell disease, a rare blood disorder that disproportionately affects African Americans in the U.S., can be difficult to treat effectively....
CRISPR - Gene Editing
The first genome (click here) editing technologies were developed in the late 1900s. More recently, a new genome editing tool called CRISPR, invented in 2009, has made it easier than ever to edit DNA. CRISPR is simpler, faster, cheaper, and more accurate than older genome editing methods. Many scientists who perform genome editing now use CRISPR.
It is okay to smile. This is for real.
Sickle cell disease (click here) is a group of disorders that affects , the molecule in red blood cells that delivers oxygen to cells throughout the body. People with this disorder have atypical hemoglobin molecules called hemoglobin S, which can distort red blood cells into a , or crescent, shape....
...Sickle cell disease is the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States, affecting 70,000 to 80,000 Americans. The disease is estimated to occur in 1 in 500 African Americans and 1 in 1,000 to 1,400 Hispanic Americans....
Where do you begin? How about the capital C for corruption. And it isn’t even ONE little corruption or even ONE big corruption it is everything. Absolutely everything about Trump and his gang is corrupt.
Trump goes off on Kushner and company for screwing up a campaign rally. Kushner is an assistant to the president with own office and staff and he is also running campaign rallies? Really? Why didn’t Trump become angry with Kushner for the failed Middle East Peace Treaty? Kushner left the world MBS and his acid baths for ANYONE that disagrees with him. I lost count of the people that has disappeared due to MBS temper tantrums. No policy simply dictator anger.
Kushner also left the world with an Israel that has carte blanc for expansionism.
So, when the Middle East peace effort coughed up some money for Kushner it is on to overseeing the border wall. The $10 million a mile border wall. Overseeing it happens from Washington, DC so he is home everyday for dinner.
Amazing. So the border wall went to the contractors responsibility and Jarrod went on to hoard the national stockpile of hospital supplies for “US.” Never bothered to describe who is us but we know it isn’t the people of the USA.
I don’t know where to begin with Barr. I think his zeal for corruption started with Reagan’s Iran Contra coverup. Why not continue his long held affection for corruption. Barr panders to Trump. It makes me wonder what Trump has on him.
Everything COVID is out of control except the Tri-State area demanding quarantine for new arrivals. That is exactly what New Zealand does. Any new arrivals into the country are brought to the COVID hotel after testing positive. A few weeks there and they leave to mingle with the virus free citizens.
The list keeps getting longer. The prosecution of 21 Russia people KNOWN to play footsie with the Trump campaign ends while the prosecution of a former American marine begins and ends in prosecution for espionage. Now the marine is to be part of a prisoner exchange. A wedding invitation turned into a trial so Russia could swap out an honest American for convicted Russians in the USA.
Then there is the Flynn and Roger Stone circus.
This is not my country. This is not the Great USA. Trump never made the USA great, he cast it into turmoil and racketeering.
The USA is in bad condition and Europe won’t open borders to USA travelers because the virus is out of control here. It would cast the EU into bankruptcy for the number of Americans they would have to test.
My, my, my.
