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Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists

… At ‌81, I still can clearly recall the first time I drove onto the bucolic N.I.H. campus in Bethesda, M‌‌d., in June of 1968 as a 27-year-old newly minted physician who had just completed residency training in ‌New York City. My motivation and consuming passion at the time were to become the most highly skilled physician I could‌‌, devoted to delivering the best possible care to ‌my patients. ‌This remains integral to my ‌‌identity, but I did not realize ‌‌how unexpected circumstances would profoundly influence the direction of my career and my life. I would soon learn to expect the unexpected.

I share my story, one of love of science and discovery, in hopes of inspiring the next generation to enter health-related careers — and to stay the course, regardless of challenges and surprises that might arise…

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/10/opinion/anthony-fauci-retirement.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Anthony Fauci: A Message to the Next Generation of Scientists

We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person’s DNA. Why Aren’t We?

But for the next few years, devastating genetic ailments and cancer are where CRISPR clinical trials must remain; ethical considerations over the safety of patients being exposed to new technology dictate that. Today's tools are also the cognate of the first iPod — at the time, an exhilarating advance but still low tech compared with present-day smartphones. Everything we learn about how to gene-edit people from this work, coupled with continued CRISPR innovation in the academic and for-profit sector, will provide a foundation for more deeply understanding how to safely edit DNA to treat and potentially prevent dire common diseases.

The invention of CRISPR gene editing gave us remarkable treatment powers, yet no one should do a victory lap. Scientists can rewrite a person's DNA on demand. But now what? Unless things change dramatically, the millions of people CRISPR could save will never benefit from it. We must, and we can, build a world with CRISPR for all.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/opinion/crispr-gene-editing-cures.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
We Can Cure Disease by Editing a Person's DNA. Why Aren't We?