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Baby is healed with first personalized gene-editing treatment

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1160 points jbredeche | 1 comments | 15 May 25 18:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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javiramos ◴[15 May 25 20:04 UTC] No.43998761[source]▶
Research funded by the NIH which our government is actively gutting
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jmcgough ◴[15 May 25 20:16 UTC] No.43998880[source]▶
Yep, this effort is the culmination of 50 years of research. Could be the last harrah of the NIH with the amount of cuts we've had and the scientists who are taking jobs in other countries.
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declan_roberts ◴[15 May 25 20:42 UTC] No.43999141[source]▶
Unfortunately a staggering amount of research in other countries is largely funded by the NIH/USA.
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1. anarticle ◴[16 May 25 13:18 UTC] No.44005152[source]▶
The reason for this is very pragmatic actually. We don’t have enough researchers of a particular specialty in one country alone. When you get that specialized the air is very rare.

By pooling our funding / effort we can create a larger body of collaborators to solve problems faster and better.

It could be that the organizations are funding wild stuff that isn’t salient. I’ll concede that.

However, in basic sciences there are so few specialists it is important to share resources. The funding is worse than ever (hello 2006!), and that trend is unlikely to reverse for a while.

Source: I worked in bioenergetics for 10y, my collaborators were from Hungary, Chile, Canada, Israel, Italy, and more! At a major conference on mito energetics they all fit in one big lecture hall (100ish?)