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Well, he can eat pizza now. What use your 20 years of experience were to him anyways?
by krick 7y ago
Well, he can eat pizza now. What use your 20 years of experience were to him anyways?
- dekhn 7y agoIt's a narrative that he can eat pizza. I don't think he really cured anything. Amusingly, none of my research in gene therapy is relevant today. It was predicated on an already obsolete concept- designing transcription factors that can bind to a unique site in the genome to guide integration. CRISPR (which is what the article is about) made my approaches technically less viable, because they require extensive simulation, modelling, and experiment, while with a good CRISPR system, you just need an appropriate guide RNA. Of course the really hard problem isn't the integration technique, it's knowing what to integrate.
- maxerickson 7y agoA frequently successful alternative therapy is to eat some yogurt once in a while. I've never had terrible symptoms (merely unpleasant), but I am lactose intolerant, and the tiny bit of lactose that is present in mozzarella (~½ gram in a serving) doesn't bother me any.
- fao_ 7y agoAs someone else mentioned, he likely hasn't really cured himself of anything. Regardless, he could have just taken lactase and called it a day