What Is Crispr?

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  1. Susan Paynter

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    CRISPR is a technology that can be used to edit genes and, as such, will likely change the world.

    The essence of CRISPR is simple: it’s a way of finding a specific bit of DNA inside a cell. After that, the next step in CRISPR gene editing is usually to alter that piece of DNA. However, CRISPR has also been adapted to do other things too, such as turning genes on or off without altering their sequence.

    CRISPR is already widely used for scientific research, and in the not too distant future many of the plants and animals in our farms, gardens or homes may have been altered with CRISPR. In fact, some people already are eating CRISPRed food.

    CRISPR technology also has the potential to transform medicine, enabling us to not only treat but also prevent many disease.
     
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    Though a seemingly innocent splice here and a removal there, genetic sequence modification has a lot of implications that are being slightly repressed.
    CRiSPR, though used to genetically modify foods is more expressly going to being used to modify human DNA. One of the prime uses is when a defect is found with a fetus, the DNA can sometimes be altered to correct the problem which, is a good thing.....maybe.
    The next step of course is designer babies whereby the parents can ask for a different color of eyes, hair, type of muscle structure and even how tall and maybe, even delve into how intelligent that child will be.

    Dunno. With the exception of performing corrective alterations for things like Down’s syndrome or something similar, this gentleman is flipping coins on the pros and cons.
     
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    Flip a coin: do away with modern drug makers who profit more when more people are sick,
    do away with modern drugs that cause more deaths today than ever before,
    and use the methods available BEFORE 1955 LEGALLY in the USA and around the world to treat(CURE) disease (treating the cause instead of the symptoms) , and to prevent many (most) diseases...
    For simple examples, see online or thru ebay/etc or a local bookstore ask
    if they have the books "Nutrition the Cancer Answer" M.Salaman (President of 100,000 licensed doctors in the usa from 1960 on, who were fighting the drug makers , and trying to get the us congress to approve studying (notice: studying) the known and proven cures for disease and to keep nutrition in the food supply and to allow doctors to use nutrition to treat , prevent and to cure disease.)

    Also Pastor Josephson's own life experience curing his own cancer: "God's Key to Health and Happiness"

    BOTH books, and thousands of others, explain how pharmacy got a stranglehold on american doctors and prevented this easy simple effective knowledge from being taught to the doctors and made it illegal for them to treat, cure, or prevent disease using nutrition or other methods not approved by the drug makers.

    Adell Davis was one of the most famous nutrionists not under the thmob control of the pharmacy,
    who published 4 or more books, also, showing how the truth of nutrition was not being used to keep people healthy "any more" in the fifties/sixties/etc , but rather was purposefully covered up and changed in many ways in order to sell more "patented" (man made) drugs , to more people getting sick never knowing the cause of their sicknesses.
    i.e. I read and studied scores of volumes in school and outside of school (medical and pharmacy and college and tech) voraciously .... thus finding out the truth about these things (and testing them step by step along the way, proving everything about which I post on this forum and anywhere else) ...

    The motive is good and right - to prevent many diseases. The methods of the drug makers opposed this for the last 118 years, at least.
     
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    I agree, "designer babies" would make race /ethnicity extinct, but then again it's our cultural upbringing that determines who we are.
    I hope designer babies are the least of people's problems.

    However, if used rightly to correct deficiencies in pregnancies, as you mentioned, its acceptable.

    They are trying to genetically modify mosquitoes to get rid of malaria. They are still in the experimental stage. This could have adverse effects, if not carefully handled.
     
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    I agree with you Jeff, it could be put to good use.
     
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    The Nazi's in the 30's had Designer Baby plans in place.
     
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    Lon,

    I read they launched a campaign in search of the 'perfect Aryan baby' at the time, but this could have been their distraction. More than anything, their focus was to win the war.
     
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    Did dyou realize that in India in places where they got malaria every year , they had no cancer ?

    When the swamps in the area were cleaned up, the mosquitoes reduced, the malaria (which harmed no one permanently I think) became more rare or non-existent there , and immediately (within months) the incidence of cancer with all the bad things associated with cancer "all of a sudden" appeared in the people.

    Side note though: The Loyola University in Chicago taught us a century ago that cancer happens every year in the usa in basically everyone (due to pollution and bad diets/fast foods/etc ) ... two or three times EVERY year....

    but, the body, just like for other things like colds and flues and corona diabolicals, the body normally eliminates the cancer/ other disease quickly.... so people usually do not even know they had cancer...

    Side note 2nd edition: in Europe for over a hundred years they have used that knowledge and given people high temperature baths immersing the whole person except the nose (and maybe eyes) in hot water to increase their body temperature a few degrees, thus killing the cancer cells without side effects and for only about $30.00 each time. In Oklahoam usa, the same method is used for thirty minutes for cancer patients, and they are charged OVER $20,000.00 for each such time. A bit of a price increase, eh !?
     
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    Never heard about this case scenario but "cause and effect" is what will happen when man tries something new. Also, back in the day, malaria was one of the "killer" diseases in India, I think, and not much was done to eradicate it or available in the medical world.

    BTW, from what I understand and going off topic, every single person has cancer cells in them. But in most cases, your body finds the cells, realizes that they're foreign, and kills them right away-without us even knowing that it happened. I guess we gotta build up our immunity.

    About the hot water treatment or hyperthermia to treat cancer, the high price we pay for these treatments, we are after all, living in the Americas.
     
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    Correct. Most people eliminate cancer cells and other such problems without us ever doing anything or even knowing when it happens.
    Our immunity is natural, "built in", for most people of any age... the babies are helped especially by their mother's immunities in the womb at first, then by mother's milk the first few years, then a good diet (more rare since between ww1 and ww2 when the food supply was tainted, on purpose. (milke, floure, and sugare - when processed greatly increased problems within ten years after ww1).....
     
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    No excuse for the high price.

    People (and licensed doctors) can give themselves high temperature baths for a few dollars compared to the corporate and political and medical gouging everyone...
    and many do. When they know about and find out about the simple easy true ways to heal, they use them safely, whenever they can, if they do not want to pay exorbitant fees for minor procedures medically.
     
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    The cases in point were towns /areas/ where they got malaria every year, with no deaths most of the time, and no ongoing problems from it.

    The druglords profited greatly by false news about it being deadly as if it was fatal and there was nothing to do about it except under the druglords.

    Oh, some or many might have died... but consider this TODAY - 6000 people die needlessly of thirst EVERY DAY -
    (my opinion) -- if the governments and corporations had provided clean water for the last 150 to 200 years , and provided for ongoing clean water all around the world
    the way they "provide" to take resources out of every country in the world (oil, minerals, produce, foods, etc) ,
    then there would not have to be more than perhaps a few hundred deaths per year from thirst, instead of 6000 per DAY....
     
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    Yup. Check out origene.com if you want to make super humans, sub humans, super virus, biological weapons. Only if you have the background/knowledge of genetics that is. Post Doctoral almost a must.
     
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    OTOH, naturally radioactive "baths", hot or otherwise, containing Radon gas, were touted for curing most everything. So was electrical shock. Nowadays it's good for one to hang upside down........

    Here and there within the human body, with it's billions of living cells of all kinds always multiplying, a few are bound to do so uncontrolled, whether by failed Apoptosis or otherwise, IMO. Those few if unchecked become a declaration of presence of malignancy. The trick is checking them as they occur, a feat beyond today's medical abilities still.

    Frank
     
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    They had many more things going than just winning the war, @Susan Paynter. Adolph picked up a lot of ideas from the eugenicists in the western world, especially in the United States. Margaret Sanger was one of the people whose ideas he admired. They had a program to eliminate genetic defects form the German and Aryan population before the war even started. They were "euthanizing" mentally ill people, Down's Syndrome children, and many others were involuntarily sterilized to prevent their "defective" genes from being passed on.
     
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