DarwinsToffees

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   by DarwinsToffees 1y ago

   I also work in this field and while I largely agree with you, cell therapy is one of the hardest hit fields right now financially and investing in big shots to do something like dual edited islet cells is probably not going to happen. Maybe
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   by DarwinsToffees 1y ago

   Kill switch is a possibility, but once you start adding more than one item to a cell it doesn't always work out. What I mean is that the number of cells that successfully take both edits and continue to operate normally or survive the
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   by DarwinsToffees 1y ago

   This is very encouraging, but will take a long time to get to any type of usable treatment because these cells are literally made to evade the immune system they run a whole bunch of other risks. Also cell therapies right now are one of the
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   by DarwinsToffees 1y ago

   To be honest I didn't even know they had this.