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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."
How quaint. I see the video doesn't show us the 'researchers' punching and torturing the puppies - they conveniently left that part out. And their faces. I wonder why?
This is a fraud. Animal 'research' doesn't predict human outcomes. Simple fact. The monsters involved in this fraud are well aware of this fact.
If animal experiments predicted human outcomes there would be no need for 'clinial trials' (AKA human experiments), and all drugs and procedures would go straight to market, without any need for human experiments. The necessity to put ALL drugs and procedures through human experiments proves beyond any doubt that animal experiments are a fraud. And strangely enough, the same people who are happy to waste billions of pounds of YOUR money every year on this fraud, are also the same psychopaths who get their rocks off seeing animals go through hell on Earth.
You don't think so? Just do a little research and find out for yourself what these people do when they don't know they are being filmed...
It's more commonly known as "the Firefox downloading tool".
Oh please. I used IE to download Netscape navigator/communicator back in the day.
Netscape Navigator/Communicator was my Firefox downloading tool.
Now I use USB drives or network shares to get Firefox on a PC other than my primary. I'm not going to use IE over and over to download Firefox. What are you a masochist?