Gene therapy success 'reverses' blindness
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We should find more research into visual prostheses. Unlike gene or stem cell therapy, a bionic eye can never turn cancerous.
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Transhumanism is the future.
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Search for this great story about a young boy who was born virtually blind and can now see thanks to a gene therapy treatment: "New Hope for Gene Therapy... A Young Boy's Fight Against Blindness"
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Most rare illnesses come from simple malfunctions in the immune system or are rare infections/parasites that can mostly be treated with antibiotics or interferon. Cancer on the other hand can have a genetic predisposition which meens its programmed into your dna and you can't easily change that. The genetic predisposition doesn't meen you will get cancer but are more succeptable to it similar to diabetes. Then in other cases it can be from random mutations from free radicals.
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jasonq21 2 years ago 8
The future is finally getting here!
Clockworkforest 3 years ago 8