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Ultimate precision medicine!

Delighted to have played a small part to ensure our patient from @bcchresearch.bsky.social was able to receive this remarkable curative treatment.

Kudos to Dr. Elie Haddad for launching this trial in Canada.

@nejm.org @genomecanada.ca @genomebc.bsky.social

27.02.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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B.C. man cured of rare disease in world-first for new gene-editingΒ technology Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

Ty Sperle says he felt "insane shock" after learning he'd been cured of a rare genetic disease through a clinical trial using a new gene-editing treatment.

26.02.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

run = won....sigh

27.02.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Up until this point I was thinking maybe they had this letter ready to go in case Reform run and then sent the wrong one by mistake.

27.02.2026 14:42 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fortunately in the UK there are other options. And the Greens have just demonstrated that they are no longer just a protest party.

27.02.2026 14:22 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh wow so not even all that close...

27.02.2026 04:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

US:
"We are all one Western Civilization sharing a common thread from Athens to Rome to America."

EU:
"We've actually been building institutions to bring Europe closer together, pooling our sovereignty around shared values and..."

US:
"No. Not like that."

18.02.2026 13:53 πŸ‘ 612 πŸ” 136 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3

This is what I don't understand. I feel like the barriers being suggested here would disproportionately hit their own base.

Don't most Americans who have passports ...lean left?

Unless of course, it all comes down to selective enforcement...

13.02.2026 23:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think the most important bit of that April 2020 article (after Starmer won leadership but 4 years before the 2024 elex) was when Jones said that the left wish him well as long as he stands by his promises.

Since then, I think Jones has been pretty clear that he...did not do that.

09.02.2026 23:53 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Not something you see in textbooks very often: tripolar mitosis.

07.02.2026 08:00 πŸ‘ 1576 πŸ” 275 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 22

2028 is going to be a different world...one way or another....

I sort of feel like the 2028 candidate may well be someone no one is even thinking about yet.

Sort of like how few people had heard the name "Mamdani" even 6 months before the NY mayoral primary.

03.02.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

omg!

30.01.2026 18:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe it says a lot that hundreds of gallons of milk is an easily relatable measurement..

23.01.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Anything but metric I see

23.01.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

No they should give it to Obama.

21.01.2026 21:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This made-in-B.C. preventive surgery lowers ovarian cancer risk A program to provide innovative preventive surgery for those at risk of ovarian cancer expands in B.C. Find out more.

VCHRI researcher Dr. Gillian Hanley is exploring innovative surgical procedure β€” the pre-emptive removal of fallopian tubes β€” which could become a game-changer in the prevention of ovarian cancer: https://ow.ly/Pq9650XXpMv Gynecologic Cancer Initiative Doctors of BC

21.01.2026 19:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

20.01.2026 01:57 πŸ‘ 21487 πŸ” 5121 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 3555

well...I mean yes quite frankly. I sincerely hope the Democratic primaries absolutely demolish a LOT of incumbents.

19.01.2026 05:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Actually I think the founders were VERY aware of someone like Trump coming to power and that they could quite easily be elected. They were writing all this during the reign of "mad king George III". That's why there are several levers to get rid of a tyrant. The issue is corruption throughout.

13.01.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Brigadune

29.12.2025 18:40 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

yeah the comparison is a bit harder to make since UK politics went absolutely haywire about 10 years ago

23.12.2025 02:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The more I look I think that housing figure might be a vast underestimate....

20.12.2025 17:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also if inflation-adjusted wages were the only thing that matters then the 90s must have been Terrible!!!

And yet that is definitely not how I or anyone else I know remember them

20.12.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Housing is a part of the basket of goods, but only about 30% or so. So if Housing goes up massively, but the other items don't that difference doesn't really get captured.

Point is relative to wages housing and education are WAY out of whack. But yes it is probably easier for us get tacos.

20.12.2025 16:32 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The point being made is that JUST looking at inflation-adjusted wages does not tell the full story. Not my area of expertise, but my understanding is that the "Adjustment" being made to wages is based on a basket of goods. Not specifically say, housing.

20.12.2025 16:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

you keep referencing material that is only talking about the pandemic. Which is A) not the time period being discussed and B) a rather unusual time economically speaking

20.12.2025 16:15 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I don't have a NYT subscription, but elsewhere I see that wages have grown 67% since the 1960s but housing πŸ”Ό 114%

education πŸ”Ό 200% since 1987
The avg age of new homeowner in 1960 was 24. Today it's 59.

It's not just bad, it's acceleratingly so. While things were getting better throughout 60s

20.12.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It does make you wonder where we would be if Cleverly had won the leadership race.

13.12.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘This is really a remarkable breakthrough in treating patients with chronic granulomatous diseaseπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

Proud to have played a very small part in this medical miracle.

@bcchresearch.bsky.social @nejm.org @bcchf.bsky.social @ubcmedicine.bsky.social

08.12.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I know!!

But it's very true that it's hard to wrap your mind around the scale over which Dinosaurs were alive. And if that asteroid had missed - no reason to think they wouldn't have just kept trucking.

30.11.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0