Gene therapy success 'reverses' blindness

the woman who narrates these videos is so sexy.

maybe because the common diseases are common because they are always changing. AIDS, influenza, the common cold- these diseases vary from strain to strain. Maybe the rare diseases don't vary as much because they don't mutate as much because they don't occur as much.

But I'm no scientist. It's just my thought.

your not born with cancer, you develope it and if something goes wrong in your growing then bam, cancer... my uncle was tested for cancer when he was a kid and had no cancer genes and our family has no recorded history of cancer. he get cancer later on in life. he developed it.

It depends on the type of cancer.
Some cancers can certainly develope in life like you say. There are also other forms of cancers that are genetic in origin.
Hopefully with new technology break throughs we will defeat cancer once and for all. Then we can all live healthier and longer.

Cheers!

We are in the future

^.^ We can't help but be in the modern age at all times, but yeah I know what you're getting at. We're just a few steps from being able to take a pill and regrow an organ. (ala Star Trek IV ^.^)

placebo effect? :D bahahaha

1000s have diabetes and that is diet related - too much sugar harms whole body but symptoms are cataract,high blood pressure,skin problems,pancreas,kidney problems... Curing one part of the body at the time will have little effect - that's curing symptoms only. Sugar causes insulin damage as well as sugar damage to the body.
[=>simple sugars in fruits,sweets =>complex sugars in grain,potatoes,rice,pasta,brea d,sweets(caramel!)]

i'm not quite sure at what your getting at with the diabetes thing, but it is acually due to a combination of hereditary and environmental causes, if it where just diet then all you would have to do is diet right and it would go away but it doesn't.

hereditary causes - near to statistical error; environmental causes - our body can filter out toxins better than average person believes. You have to live in real shit hole like Romania 10 years ago or China to be affected by environment. Alcohol and tar from cigarettes is much more powerful than some dust in the air. And I don't say what I think it should be, it's knowledge from school: most important for your health is life style and most of it - the diet. Genes are the perfect excuse :-P