Mockingbird
New member
<div class="FTQUOTE"><begin quote><i>Originally posted by: <b>ttmomma</b></i>
Well they found the gene, they found out how to put the gene in- sounds pretty good to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</end quote></div>
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they've known how to do that for quite a while.
I did a quick search and found an article: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.genome.gov/10001213">http://www.genome.gov/10001213</a>
"Gene therapy offers great promise for life-saving treatment for CF patients since it targets the cause of CF rather than just treating symptoms. Gene therapy for CF had its start in 1990, when scientists successfully corrected faulty CFTR genes by adding normal copies of the gene to laboratory cell cultures.
In 1993, the first experimental gene therapy treatment was given to a patient with CF. Researchers modified a common cold virus to act as a delivery vehicle - or "vector"- carrying the normal genes to the CFTR cells in the airways of the lung.
Subsequent studies have tested other methods of gene delivery, such as fat capsules, synthetic vectors, nose drops or drizzling cells down a flexible tube to CFTR cells lining the airways of lungs. Researchers are now testing aerosol delivery using nebulizers.
But finding the best delivery system for transporting normal CFTR genes is only one problem that scientists must solve to develop an effective treatment for CF. Scientists must also determine the life span of affected lung cells, identify the "parent cells" that produce CFTR cells, find out how long treatment should last and how often it needs to be repeated.
The first cystic fibrosis gene therapy experiments have involved lung cells because these cells are readily accessible and because lung damage is the most common, life-threatening problem in CF patients. But scientists hope that the technologies being developed for lung cells will be adapted to treat other organs affected by CF."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I imagine this is what your doctor was talking about, but it is impossible to tell.
At any rate, I believe in the proverb "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth." Or in other words, there can (and probably will) be many unforeseen obstacles and complications in the future, things which not even a doctor who is head of a research department can predict or control.
It is fine to hope for a cure, but it is wise to be prepared for a future without one.
"It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in man.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in princes [or doctors, if you prefer]" Psalm 118:8
Well they found the gene, they found out how to put the gene in- sounds pretty good to me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</end quote></div>
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think they've known how to do that for quite a while.
I did a quick search and found an article: <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="http://www.genome.gov/10001213">http://www.genome.gov/10001213</a>
"Gene therapy offers great promise for life-saving treatment for CF patients since it targets the cause of CF rather than just treating symptoms. Gene therapy for CF had its start in 1990, when scientists successfully corrected faulty CFTR genes by adding normal copies of the gene to laboratory cell cultures.
In 1993, the first experimental gene therapy treatment was given to a patient with CF. Researchers modified a common cold virus to act as a delivery vehicle - or "vector"- carrying the normal genes to the CFTR cells in the airways of the lung.
Subsequent studies have tested other methods of gene delivery, such as fat capsules, synthetic vectors, nose drops or drizzling cells down a flexible tube to CFTR cells lining the airways of lungs. Researchers are now testing aerosol delivery using nebulizers.
But finding the best delivery system for transporting normal CFTR genes is only one problem that scientists must solve to develop an effective treatment for CF. Scientists must also determine the life span of affected lung cells, identify the "parent cells" that produce CFTR cells, find out how long treatment should last and how often it needs to be repeated.
The first cystic fibrosis gene therapy experiments have involved lung cells because these cells are readily accessible and because lung damage is the most common, life-threatening problem in CF patients. But scientists hope that the technologies being developed for lung cells will be adapted to treat other organs affected by CF."
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
I imagine this is what your doctor was talking about, but it is impossible to tell.
At any rate, I believe in the proverb "Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth." Or in other words, there can (and probably will) be many unforeseen obstacles and complications in the future, things which not even a doctor who is head of a research department can predict or control.
It is fine to hope for a cure, but it is wise to be prepared for a future without one.
"It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in man.
It is better to take refuge in the Lord
Than to trust in princes [or doctors, if you prefer]" Psalm 118:8