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CRISPR technology to cure sickle cell disease -- ScienceDaily A Massive New Gene Editing Project Is Out to Crush Alzheimer’s (singularityhub.com) It's an amazing time. If you're interested there's a very good book that goes back and covers the basic research that's led us to what's happening now. It's about Jennifer Doudna and her associates and their discoveries. "The Code Breaker", it's highly recommended by me and a lot of others who are much smarter than me. The things they were able to do are nothing short of astounding.

What's her theory on raising blackberries?🤓

You'd have to be a molecular biology research scientist for that to happen and we all know what the chances of that are.

If you really want to get your mind twisted about what modern medicine is up to, read about Crispr and treatments for things like sickle cell. Alzheimer's is probably next up (or at least not that far off) for a no joke cure. They've figured out how to make and inject billions of nano particles carrying a gene cutting mRNA sequence that actually seeks out and disables the faulty DNA in cells that cause these diseases. Sounds like science fiction but it's not. They started out modifying cells and injecting them but there are parts of the body that are very difficult to extract cells from. Thus the nano particle effort. And it freaking works!

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And from what I heard down at the bar, pretty right too.

These freaks want a vaccine that's 100% effective or it's worthless. As for me, I want a boat mechanic that's 100% effective, and some old goat that's right all the time too.

Man you can always be counted on to be full of BS with no backup other than it's what I heard.

Links?

Gotmuddy makes great ceviche at jigfest with what he's caught. Saltwater fish I believe. I've made walleye ceviche and it was good too.

My drum eating experience was not positive. Rubbery texture. And I'm funny, one bad experience and I'm done from here on out with whatever it was. Don't ask me about eating Fuddrucker's hamburger. A really ugly story.

I like them all but they're more a special treat than what's for dinner (most of the time).

Go ahead John, roe of any description is great. Not joking.

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Big fan of sushi and ceviche. But the line is drawn and channel catfish are on the other side.

So long as you're happy, that's all that really matters.

Aren't you a principal or other admin position? Those are normally better paid than classroom teacher.

Why would anyone want to go on a crap vacation?

Back in the 80's, when Heck was a pup, Lambert was a TWA Hub. I was working for Union Electric and heavily involved in negotiating regulations that affected electric utilities nationwide. Flew to and from D.C. often. Once or twice nearly every week. Sometimes on short notice. Getting to D.C. wasn't usually a problem. Getting back home was a different story. TWA would schedule three to five sometimes six flights out of Reagan back to Lambert. And would just cancel flights willy nilly until they got a more or less full plane.... Buy a ticket for a 4:00 flight and finally get on one leaving at 8:30 happened all the time. That's what made me hate flying long before TSA was a thing. I feel sorry for any business traveler today. At least back then you could still have a beer on a plane.

Looking at that Dutch that's for Erin, mine is more or less a perfect match, though not as old and has the Lodge Lid. They sure look like twins to my amateur eye.

I like and use Cast Iron a lot myself. For skillets I have a #5 Wagner, two #8 Wagner and one #10 Wagner. For Dutch ovens I have a 12" smooth interior three leg no name with a lid for outdoor cooking with coals and a 10" older smooth interior Lodge that's not for cooking with coals. I've been wanting a Chicken Fryer for years. Deep Skillets or Chicken Fryers are NOT easy to find, especially with a lid. For The Milo Person to have that piece (and the lid!) and actually let it go to me is really special. My Daughter In Law gets a spectacular Dutch Oven and Lid. And another dear friend is getting the three skillets. Thanks so much BH. And thanks for taking care of Uncle Odie like you did.

And he's an honest to Pete, no joke expert collector and restorer. Plus a few of us think he's a pretty good guy too.

Giggleguy did. Should have quoted him not you. Will you ever be able to forgive me?

Changing careers usually means taking a big pay cut for a while, plus the cost of retraining.

Working on the stuff they design. Pretty sure they won't design trucks that require pulling the inner fender to change a fuel filter after that. As just one example.