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Scientists Reverse Muscular Dystrophy In Dogs
Al writes "Scientists have taken a step toward developing a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) by successfully treating the condition in dogs using a novel genetic technique. The scientists used a method called exon skipping, which involves adding a genetic 'patch' to block transcription of a portion of the gene involved in DMD. This puts the remaining genetic sequence back in order, essentially creating a much less severe version of the condition. The scientists recorded some remarkable video footage showing the resulting improvements in several dogs with naturally-occurring DMD. More work is needed before the treatment can be given to humans, however, because DMD sufferers often have different genetic mutations."
"IE"? What is that? I cannot recall... :P
wait slashdotters don't use IE... Imposter! Who are you and what have you done with the owner of that computer!
...the end of Labor Day Weekend Telathons? What will Jerry Lewis do now? Guess my 25 cents in a fireman's boot actually worked.
"IE"? What is that? I cannot recall... :P
It's more commonly known as "the Firefox downloading tool".
If this does work, will our descendants have to deal with a more personal variation of Patch Tuesdays??
For some reason, I read the headline as "Scientists Reverse Muscular Dystrophy in Frogs". Reading that, I thought, "Well no wonder the French love Jerry Lewis".
# patch -p0 < cure-md.patch
File to patch: chromosone/18
patching file chromosone/18
Hunk #1 FAILED at 47.
Hunk #2 FAILED at 128.
Hunk #3 FAILED at 308.
Hunk #4 FAILED at 316.
Hunk #5 FAILED at 328.
Hunk #6 FAILED at 342.
Hunk #7 FAILED at 397.
Hunk #8 FAILED at 708.
Hunk #9 FAILED at 1268.
9 out of 9 hunks FAILED -- saving rejects to file
chromosone/18.rej
æeee!
Nuh-uh. Did you ever see 28 Days Later?
Zombies. The worst thing that could go wrong are zombies.
Ride the skies
Oh yeah, did you ever see "28 Days" with Sandra Bullock? Now that is some scary shit...
Help fight poverty: Punch a poor person.
If I quit every job I had every time someone higher up decided something stupid, I would be permanently unemployed.
It's called "work" for a reason. If it was fun, it would be called "fun", and financial compensation would not be required...
"But this one goes to 11!"
Really? If I were the betting type, I'd say just about everyone is almost certainly going to die
"Just about" everyone is "almost certainly" going to die? Last time I checked, I'd say EVERYONE is going to die. The only questions are "when", and "by what". Of course, I could be wrong, there are ALWAYS statistical outliers...
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.
As a zombie, I'll tell you right now that I try to stay away from genetically modified people, and I think they should be banned from the food chain.