Researchers have made a significant advance in designing a “mini gene” treatment for Usher Syndrome (summary, and published paper below). What’s amazing about this is the level of understanding of the chemistry, genes, biochemistry, structural biology, etc. needed design the result. The work was funded directly by my family and many many others under the leadership of the Usher 1F collaborative. Money goes in one end, and science and therapies come out the other :-)
Psyching myself up to read “Nona the Ninth”. The first two books nearly fried my brain but in a good way. Now I’m worried I need to reread them to appreciate the latest. #books#bookstodon
“Spear”, by Nicola Griffith, just won the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction from the LA Times. One of my favorite recent books. #books#bookstodon
Funny how during the great #TwitterMigration here so much of the #mastodon conversation was about the pros and cons of each platform etc. Now Mastodon is mostly interesting conversations, and #Twitter is awash in debates about the blue check & Musk