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Meeting on gene therapy November 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m

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Sharmin:
This is amazing new - very encouraging.  I hope that more good news will follow.  Praying.

Sharmin

7assan:
Delightful news for patients with thalassemia all this because everyone is praying and standing with the patients and I thank all who contributed to help patients with thalassemia.

pleasance:
this is indeed a delightful news giving us new hope and reason to fight..........was so happy just by knowing about this and m waiting for a day when i would really hera the news of someone amongst our children getting cured by it
 :hugfriend..............
                    Thank u for showing us the light...or a ray of hope other than the bone marrow

Andy Battaglia:
Time for an analogy.

There was a company that wanted to buy a race horse. They looked at two competing stables and even though the one stable offered a horse with the best possible breeding and training, this company chose a horse from another stable, even though there was some uncertainty about the horse's breeding and its long term viability as a race horse. They trained the horse and with a proper dose of drugs, this horse was able to win the Derby, as the other horse came in a strong second. However, after the race, the company looked at the horse and realized that this horse could never win another race, because it had never been a strong enough horse in the first place and had no long term viability. The company now looked at the horse that placed second with some degree of envy. This horse was in it for the long haul and would have many victories yet to come. So, realizing their own horse had won the only race it was going to win, the company went to the owner of the other horse and offered some big bucks if they would sell both horse and trainer to their company. The trainer, however, has been very happy working where he was and did not want to work for another and also, since the trainer had raised this horse since birth, he felt it was his baby and did not want someone else to come in and take over and tell him how he should train the horse. There also remained a good deal of distrust by this trainer for the trainer of the other horse, and he was very wary of this other company. But he was under contract to his stable and he would be obliged to do what they ruled. Meanwhile, as a result of the back and forth going on, the horse missed the next race, the Preakness Stakes. Now we have to wonder if this horse can possibly be ready for its next scheduled race at Belmont, as the owner and trainer can't agree on whether they should even race there, as the owner is now starry eyed over promised monies from the other company.

Folks, that is where we are right now with gene therapy. Stay tuned and see where this trainer and his horse end up and how much this delay will cost in the long term.

Story © A. Battaglia 2010

love and prayers:
let's all pray together for gene therapy's success and availabilty in the very very near future!!

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