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WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR!

 GENTLE PEOPLE:

   LIKE THOUSANDS OF JOURNALISTS AROUND THE WORLD, I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE PROGRESS OF VACCINE RESEARCH IN THE MOST HIGHLY SUBSIDIZED LABORATORIES AROUND THE WORLD...ONLY TO BE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE SLOW AND OFTEN NEGATIVE RESULTS PRODUCED BY THOSE SAME LABORATORIES. THIS WEEK, THANKS TO PROFESSOR LEOR WEINBERGER, THERE IS NEW HOPE ON THE HORIZON! I NOW UNDERSTAND WHY PROGRESS HAS BEEN SO SLOW AND IT IS NOT THE FAULT OF THE LABORATORIES BUT THE NATURE AND ABILITY OF VIRUSES TO MUTATE, SURVIVE AND INFECT. 

 THE SARS-COV-2 OR COVID-19 VIRUS ENTERS A HUMAN CELL AND HIJACKS THE REPLICATION MACHINERY OF THE CELL, SILENTLY REPLICATING ITSELF AND INFECTING MORE HUMAN CELLS AND THEN PROVOKING A DANGEROUS IMMUNE RESPONSE...

  NOW, HOWEVER,  IT WILL BE POSSIBLE, USING CAS 9 AND CRISPR, TO REPROGRAM AND CREATE GOOD VIRUSES THAT WILL DO THE EXACT SAME THING TO NASTY VIRUSES WITHOUT PROVOKING AN IMMUNE RESPONSE THAT KILLS BOTH THE VIRUS AND THE HUMAN CELL. 

 WHAT I HAVE LEARNED RECENTLY IS THAT DANGEROUS VIRUSES: REPLICATE, MUTATE AND TRANSMIT AND UP UNTIL RECENTLY, THE HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED VACCINES CREATED TO COMBAT HIV, FLU, AND SARS-COV2,  DO NOT REPLICATE, MUTATE AND TRANSMIT TO COMBAT THE KILLER VIRUS. AFTER TWENTY YEARS OF ALMOST BURN OUT EFFORT, PROFESSOR LEOR WEINBERGER AND HIS TEAM AT THE GLADSTONE INSTITUE IN CALIFORNIA, HAVE DISCOVERED A METHOD TO CREATE AN ANTI-VIRUS VIRUS. A VIRUS SAFE FOR HUMANS BUT WHICH CAN REPLICATE, MUTATE, AND HIJACK THE DANGEROUS VIRUS AND THEN TRANSMIT ITSELF IN PLACE OF THE KILLER VIRUS, RENDERING THE KILLER VIRUS HARMLESS. THE POTENTIALLY EXCELLENT GOOD NEWS GOING ALONG WITH THIS DISCOVERY IS HOW THIS NEW FORM OF SELF-TRANSMITTING VACCINE CAN BE USED FOR ALL THE DANGEROUS VIRUSES AND NOT ONLY FOR THOSE MENTIONED ABOVE. THE CATCH 22 IS AS USUAL THE NECESSITY TO MAKE ABSOLUTELY SURE THIS NEW METHOD IS SAFE FOR USE. THE POSSIBILITY TO ERADICATE VIRAL CREATED DISEASES AROUND THE WORLD IS CLOSE...VERY VERY CLOSE!

"Viruses mutate and spread from person to person, a dynamic process that often leaves us playing catch-up when there's a new disease outbreak. What if vaccines worked the same way? Virologist Leor Weinberger shares a scientific breakthrough: "hijacker therapy," a type of medical treatment that could attack, modify and spread alongside a virus, potentially treating afflicted individuals and slowing the spread of infections like HIV."

• Leor Weinberger and his team have developed novel therapies with profound implications in depriving infectious diseases, in particular HIV, of the ability to replicate.

  

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