Mttt Porteus, ‘hackeando’ sickle cell anemia VS ‘After Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison by Jeff Wall, 2000’

Posted on April 14, 2019 by markweiss86
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There is a very promising lecture by my Gunn classmate Matt Porteous regarding gene editing to cure sickle cell anemia with stem cells in which he quotes for inspiration ironically Kurt Vonnegut from Player Piano, 1952

AA872651-A2ED-4269-A4E0-B1D1122C8AAD.jpegSomehow reminds me of this photograph depicting an early scene from Ralph Ellison’s the invisible man. I’m taking Michael Krasny’s coursing literature thing at Stanford extension and happened to see the Jordan Peele movie “Us”as I was reading TS Eliot TWL and felt that one was an influence on the other especially regarding “the shadow.”

Matt quotes a thinker named John Rawls(1921-2002) not to be confused with John Galt.  A Person with sickle cell anemia in the United States might live to his 40s while in the southern hemisphere he or  she might die by age 5.

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