“Let them eat cake” moment
grimmrad 🧬🎼🖼️🏛️
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Physician-scientist, Radiologist, Prof & Lab Head in NYC Imaging & treating cancer using particles faster than light + others. Science, Music, Art and History lover and connoisseur.
Opinions solely mine and not my employer's or lab members'.
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Yeah. That’s how that works. You find a great preventive measure and therapy for cancer - and then you end all of that and look to work with other disease. That’s how medicine works. We fined a cure, then end it and make it unavailable and do something else. Totally normal way of thinking.
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Is this the scheme? Take the prevention away from preventable diseases and make people buy expensive therapies for previously preventable diseases? As always - follow the money. Who buys and owns stock in Pharma that does not make vaccines?
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We all know the answer and we all know what will actually happen.
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How?
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Totally missed him leaving. Damn.
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A reminder that the mRNA vaccine technology saved millions of lives during the Covid pandemic and received the 2023 Nobel Prize for Medicine
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An exciting first step towards direct and stable correction of type I diabetes. NEJM paper here: www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Also makes me wish our government still understood these kinds of advances require broad & sustained support of many different kinds of basic science
only way this happens
Survival of Transplanted Allogeneic Beta Cells with No Immunosuppression | NEJM
The need to suppress a patient’s immune system after the transplantation of allogeneic cells is associated with wide-ranging side effects. We report the outcomes of transplantation of genetically m...
A man with type 1 diabetes is now able to make his own insulin thanks to a transplant of gene-edited pancreatic cells—a transplant that hasn’t required the typical drugs used to avoid rejection.
Diabetic Man With Gene-Edited Cells Produces His Own Insulin—No Transplant Drugs Required
A proof-of-concept study finds that donated insulin-producing cells can be genetically modified to avoid provoking the recipient's immune system.
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We need Nuremberg II
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Tell me you don’t know how universities and NIH grants work without telling me that you don’t know how universities and NIH grants work.
