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Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin (scientificamerican.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Scientific American: The German doctors realized they had to do something drastic or their seven-year-old patient would die. The boy had escaped war-ravaged Syria with his parents, and a rare genetic disease had left him with raw, blistering sores over 80 percent of his body. His doctors in a children's burn unit tried everything they could to treat his illness, called junctional epidermolysis bullosa -- even grafting some skin from his father to see if it would heal the child's wounds. But his body rejected this. Finally, they e-mailed Michele De Luca, a researcher in Italy, to ask for help.
The doctors took a small sample of skin from one of the few places on the boy's body where it was not flaming red or flaking off, and sent it to De Luca. His team at the center used a virus to insert into the skin cells a correct copy of a gene called LAMB3; the boy's own defective copy had caused his epidermolysis bullosa. De Luca and his colleagues grew the skin cells over scaffolds in their lab to form large sheets, the way doctors often do for burn patients. In two surgeries in October and November 2015, the Italian and German teams covered the boy's limbs, sides and back with these sheets of fresh skin. After being too sick even to get out of bed before his surgeries, "he was standing up already by Christmas," De Luca says. In January 2016 the boy, whose name is not being released to protect his privacy, received a few more skin patches -- and in February he was released from the University Hospitals of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.
The doctors took a small sample of skin from one of the few places on the boy's body where it was not flaming red or flaking off, and sent it to De Luca. His team at the center used a virus to insert into the skin cells a correct copy of a gene called LAMB3; the boy's own defective copy had caused his epidermolysis bullosa. De Luca and his colleagues grew the skin cells over scaffolds in their lab to form large sheets, the way doctors often do for burn patients. In two surgeries in October and November 2015, the Italian and German teams covered the boy's limbs, sides and back with these sheets of fresh skin. After being too sick even to get out of bed before his surgeries, "he was standing up already by Christmas," De Luca says. In January 2016 the boy, whose name is not being released to protect his privacy, received a few more skin patches -- and in February he was released from the University Hospitals of the Ruhr University Bochum in Germany.
with greasy solar atoms? That would have forced the the body cells to react, to protect themselves. That means growing skin.
today was a slow news day.
The results are published in Nature today.
And so it is indeed news.
https://www.nature.com/article...
Someone call Liam Neeson!
The story came out today because the peer-reviewed article came out today.
The surgeries were done at those times you mention. The skin healing and coming to an equilibrium would take months after that. To confirm it was growing as normal would take more months after that. Tests on samples collected after several months would themselves take months after that. Writing the paper would take months after that. Review would take at least one month. And that brings us up to the present day. Doing the surgery and saying "Well we healed him permanently" the next day would be premature.
This isn't some app some douche made that takes pictures and adds new filters, this is real science, and real science takes time.
Next stop, foreskin regeneration!
Did you know about it before? It's not like it's gone stale. It takes time to evaluate the result of something like this. Complaining about this particular article "not being news" implies a cynicism in you bordering on Grumpy Old Man status.
This is a really great outcome. It would be horrible to have such a debilitating disease. For these scientists to be able to fix his DNA to cure him of this is truly remarkable, and should be applauded. Now, this young boy gets to grow up and have a chance at enjoying life without these sores and the crippling pain that is associated with it.
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"...to the moon..." - Neil Armstrong
This summary is missing the most important detail. How does the flavor and texture compare to the all-natural sustainably harvested free-range variety currently available?
So no mention of the patient's name, good. But why bother to mention the Syria connection? Does that have anything to do with the treatment or outcome/?
Sorry for feeding the troll, but I can say if it were my little girl (yes, she's white) that this happened to, then I would be thanking the doctors, even if it failed. What life is worth living under the "natural" state you see here.
I would also defend Dr. Frankenstein to the bitter end. For trying.
Science advances one funeral at a time- Max Planck
If not through it being published?
Also, I want to know these things! And nobody here heard of it before! Which, by definition, makes it news!
Why are you so obsessed with the Plank time unit it arrives in front of your eyes being the Planck time unit it happened? What’s wrong with you?
... that some (morons) believe the kid (!) does not deserve it, because happened to be born somewhere else.
Like he chose to be born in a fucking war country...
(And btw, where was that fucking "God" asshole? Mysterious deliberately-letting-kids-suffer ways again?)
And they never fucking realize, that this kid will suck up our (German) culture, and contribute to our society like everyone else. He certainly will not contribute less, than any jobless alcoholic dumbass of a blaming-others failure of a neo-Nazi ever did. Cause that'd be a fucking achievement on its own!
Yeah, I'm sorry, this makes me swear a lot. I think that's what swearing was invented for. Maybe watch some Malcolm Tucker to make this here feel milder... :)
If you believe everything that isn't "perfect, first try", is a "failure",
then how much of a failure do you believe YOU to be?
Maybe you should get a therapy, and not project your lack of self-worth onto others.
Seriously, ... how low in life can one get?
You're acting as much as a Nazi as you possibly could, and then end it with comparing them to Nazis.
You need to get an award, mate! Retard of the century!
Btw, we can all see you projecting your inferiority complex for being such a complete failure in life. Do you even wear anything except for beer-stained smelly ex-white briefs and Nazi boots, as I write this? I bet you never had a job beyond the most primitive factory night shift worker ones, because you're such a failure.
Whoa, and I thought millennial were bad. The latest generation are too lazy to even grow their own skin, they have to buy it and have someone install it.
Expect more people to require this since now the kid and others like him will live long enough to breed. If they had to graft his penis, would it end up as sensitive as normal skin? Same with his fingers, feet, and other body parts?
The first skin graft with this method was in October. October to February is up to 5 months.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
They performed a radical and unauthorized medical experiment
Whose authorization do you think it requires?
is the technology, which saved this patient.
Lets factor this in the, next time GMO argumentation starts to heat up.
Is good joke, tovarishch.
Found the Russian
Let me guess. Science performs a miracle with the pinnacle of current human understanding. Parents thank their god(s).
Bert
So now we have yet another person with defective genes in our gene pool. Great. Modern medicine for the win.
And Poe's law in 3 ... 2 ... 1 ...
So you're the kind of person that does not question stories.... I bet money you believe in fairy tales and don't know it.
They literally patched his DNA...
If that bothers you, just look at it that way that they used that little expendable refugee to try some new medicine that might one day save good Aryan blood, just like their forefathers did on other expendables.
Should make you feel better instantly.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
unauthorized
Where do you get this bullshit from?
Why do you believe doctors shouldn't try everything they can to save the live of a middle-eastern girl?
You seem to have a unique flavor or racism where you hate every race.
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You mean the nazis that Russia is financing, and that is the fault of USA?
This is not his fault - he has been indoctrinated, starting from school following trough with media coverage of all that is even slightly challenging to the ruling elite as nazis. Some of them may be but we will never know because instead of a factual discussion a mud throwing (you are a nazi!) is usually taking place. This result is a mental disease affecting huge parts of population that makes actual intolerance and other threats to open society go unchecked. The usual mass hysteria that affects societies from time to time. The currently common approach to 'discussing' issues i.e. pressing on emotions instead of using facts and reason makes any meaningful conversation difficult and causes real life losses - UK politician accused of misconduct committed a suicide this week.. Germans I am afraid are specially affected in right wing over-sensitivity making them incapable to protect open society that they once had.
I didn't know the ability to grow skin from existing skin cells was so advanced. Does this cost an insane amount? It would seem to be a good way to grown new skin that can be grafted on to replace scarred tissue.
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You seem to have a unique flavor or racism where you hate every race.
That's not racism. But hey, never let the truth get in he way of triggering all the SJW assholes with an inflamitory term.
Anyone remember the DarkMan movie from 1990....
How do you define news? And do you understand that your definition isn't the same as the rest of the world?
No. Publishing history isn't news.
The news is that an in situ gene replacement technique has worked in one patient and is the subject of a paper. The implications of this are very large.
We didn't save *you*. We saved the rest of Europe, and a good chunk of Asia, to *stop you trying for the reset of the world including us!"
The nationalism you're seeing now in Europe is a reaction to the less savory aspects of a new insurgency, rather than being internally whipped up hatred for a minority that had been a productive and peaceful part of your society for hundreds of years.
They performed a radical and unauthorized medical experiment al la Joseph Mengele on some foreign little brown kid and not a single one of you finds anything grotesquely sick with this!?
Every medical advance began with researchers toying with some cohort of patients. This little boy was about to die after all conventional treatments had failed. All patients who fit this criterion get experimented on. I have a brother who is alive today because when all else had failed was the subject of a radical experiment.
Interestingly, the technique used in the German case was genetic engineering. People like you will refuse such a treatment, and therefore will not be around to influence future generations. This is a good thing.
Except this "insurgency" only exists in the minds of the nationalists, just as the hatred for the minority you mentioned.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
Kyle Reese: [in a stolen car, while being chased by the police and the terminator] All right, listen. The Terminator's an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.
Sarah Connor: Look, Reese, I don't know what you want from...
Kyle Reese: Pay attention! I gotta ditch this car.
echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
The real news is that this means they're one step closer to being able to reverse male-pattern baldness!
A large bunch of people showing up on your doorstep, unvetted by any national immigration system, is an insurgency. At least our own insurgents are Catholic.
Jesus Christ, I wish it was Truman nuked the Germans instead of the Japanese.
Why on earth would he have done that? They'd surrendered while the Japanese refused to do so. With the Japanese it was a part of war (and arguably a war crime). With Germany it would have been undeniably a genocide.
Youre either a troll or a dumb cunt, you choose.
Seriously, who can not believe in racial theories when you see black vs white IQ and crime stats over and over again? And it plays out irl examples again and again.
..."left him with raw, blistering sores over 80 percent of his body."...
Well, that's a link I won't click. Thanks for the warning! =-]
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Was that whooshing sound Russian warplanes on their way to bomb more civilians? Not this time.