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Yoni Maisel

@Primary_Immune

Jun 20

. 🧬Exciting stuff! 🧬
Hope of a genetic-"fix" for youngsters with a rare blood disorder
newscientist.com/article/232451… #bioinformatics #snrtg #scicomm #openscience #technology #biotech #genomics #raredisease

The clinical trial results which prompted extending CRISPR treatment to kids for
🧬 Sickle-cell and Beta-Thalassemia🩸
bit.ly/3n4MwUO #openscience #scicomm

🧵(thread 3/3)
...more 🧬✂️DNA-editing hope:
1⃣ Inborn Errors of Immunity : frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #bioinformatics #biotech #WomenInSTEM #openscience #scicomm
2⃣ 'CF', ... 🫁 ➕: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #immunology #genomics #raredisease

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Yoni Maisel

@Primary_Immune

Jun 19

. 🦠#COVID19 ⚠️F*CKing⚠️with the
brain🧠and body
of this 15 year-old boy. Real badly.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc… #WomenInSTEM #openscience #scicomm #snrtg #immunology #neurology

COVID-19 is NOT "just like the flu."
COVID-19 is NOT "just like the flu."
COVID-19 is NOT "just like the flu."

"Cerebellar examination revealed impaired finger to nose, heel to shin, and rapid alternative movements. Gait was ataxic and he could not walk without help."
* in a previously healthy young man

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Yoni Maisel

@Primary_Immune

Jun 19

. 🦠COVID is not over ❗️
⬆️Big recent increases here in my country 🇮🇱 ; a fresh new wave.
1⃣new cases: gov.il/en/departments… 2⃣hospitalizations: timesofisrael.com/israel-sees-sh… #COVID19 #openscience #rstats #serverless #snrtg #Israel

I was not expecting a new COVID wave until at least Autumn. I was wrong.
🦠SarsCov2 is unpredictable. It does not abide by seasons.

The figure of new cases could be a vast underestimation:
"Israel's Covid czar: Likely up to 20,000 cases
every day in current outbreak"
i24news.tv/en/news/corona… #scicomm #COVID19 #Israel #openscience

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Yoni Maisel

@Primary_Immune

Jun 18

One of the most devastating and heart-wrenching of the
~7,000 known rare diseases
A novel mutation🧬identified in
*⃣ "Epidermolysis Bullosa"*⃣
bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #bioinformatics #openscience #100daysofcode #snrtg #genomics #raredisease

Young patients with Epidermolysis Bullosa are known as
"Butterfly Children"
A novel gene therapy has shown dramatic and promising results for some of them:
science.org/content/articl… #openscience #biotech #scicomm

Epidemolysis Bullosa: frequently referred to as
'The worst disease you've never heard of'
chron.com/life/health/ar… #openscience #raredisease #scicomm

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Yoni Maisel

@Primary_Immune

Jun 18

⚠️Potentially dangerous
new 🦠#COVID19 variants🧬
▪️The pandemic won't end until we prevent this phenomenon
❗️Get💉 vaxxed to shield & protect the immunocompromised
ijidonline.com/article/S1201-… #bioinformatics #WomenInSTEM #openscience #snrtg #immunology #genomics #raredisease

. "NOBODY is safe from the virus until
we are ALL safe from the virus"
~Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus (WHO Director General)

Viruses🦠do strange things when unchallenged for long periods of times in hosts.
Unfortunately mutating🧬is one of those things.

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Yoni Maisel

@Primary_Immune

Jun 17

Socialized Medicine:
Today I ended a week a of I.V.💉antibiotic Rx for a severe 🦠infection.
The Rx was at my home🏠by an MD & nurse. Due to my immunodeficiency my HMO didn't want me in a potentially-dangerous hospital setting.
Today I got the bill: 380 shekel (🇮🇱)
~90 US💲

"Socialized Medicine" gets a bad-rap by many.
To me it means kind, compassionate, expert care that is inexpensive and affordable.

The ~$90 included lab-workup, the I.V. antibiotics, and the at-home infusions themselves.

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