🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump ordered the military to get ready for another strike on Iran… possibly as soon as this weekend.
Aaron David Miller: "[Iran] can't vertically escalate, but they can focus on horizontal escalation:
Maximizing their geographical advantage, and weaponizing geography."
That’s the report dropping right now.
If it’s legit, the Middle East is about to light up again and nobody’s ready for what comes next.
Writer: Val
Scientists just did something that was supposed to be impossible.
A team at Japan's Mie University used CRISPR gene editing to remove the entire extra chromosome behind Down syndrome.
Not manage the symptoms. Remove the cause.
Down syndrome, or trisomy 21, happens when cells carry a third copy of chromosome 21. For over half a century, every treatment has focused on the effects, never the root.
Led by Dr. Ryotaro Hashizume, the researchers designed their CRISPR-Cas9 system to target only the surplus chromosome and leave the healthy two untouched. A technique they call allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage.
It worked.
In lab-grown stem cells and in skin cells taken from people with Down syndrome, the extra chromosome was snipped out. And the corrected cells didn't just survive. They grew faster, behaved more normally, and produced fewer of the harmful byproducts tied to cellular stress and aging.
Here's the honest part most headlines skip.
This happened in cells, in a dish. Not in a living person. Some of the CRISPR cuts still hit healthy chromosomes, so the team is refining their targeting before any of this comes close to a clinic.
It's a first step, not a finish line.
But it's the first time anyone has reached the actual source of the most common chromosomal condition on Earth and pulled it out.
The thing science said couldn't be undone just got undone in a petri dish.
Source: Hashizume et al., "Trisomic rescue via allele-specific multiple chromosome cleavage using CRISPR-Cas9 in trisomy 21 cells," PNAS Nexus (2025), Mie University
@RepThomasMassie Seems like a utopian dream.
Maybe someday
I'll hold out hope and support you Thomas, your a good one. You need more help though, find other good ones.