The Panican Ledger

 ✴ Dispatch from the Department of Cheery Continuance ✴

“It Still Works, and Isn’t That Wonderful?”

(Et adhuc operatur, mirabile dictu!)

“Hope is the oldest technology, and still the most advanced.”
—From the scrolls of the Department’s Paediatric Wing

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👶🏽 The Curious Case of KJ Muldoon: Baby, Miracle, Marvel

In the hallowed halls of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, where heartbreak and hope often share adjoining wards, something extraordinary has occurred: Baby KJ Muldoon, once bound by the diagnosis of a deadly rare genetic disease, has gone home.

But this is no ordinary discharge. This is the first child in the world to receive a personalized, one-time gene-editing therapy, custom-built for a single soul—his own.

And it worked.

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🧬 The Procedure, in Brief (and in Awe)

KJ was diagnosed with Wiskott-Aldrich Syndrome, a rare and potentially fatal immunodeficiency.

Doctors—using the revolutionary CRISPR gene-editing toolkit—designed a therapy to correct the faulty gene specifically in KJ’s cells.
The treatment was a bespoke blend of genetic precision and experimental faith, a moonshot for a body barely out of the womb.

The therapy was administered. And against every actuarial table and medical forecast, it worked.

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🏥 From Isolation to Homecoming

Just weeks ago, the hospital room was a sterile cathedral of wires, monitors, and whispered prayers. Now?

KJ Muldoon has been released, home with his parents, alive, thriving, and rewriting the very notion of what medicine can do. His doctors described the treatment’s effect as “profound.” His parents called it “a miracle.” The Ledger agrees.

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📜 Why This Belongs in the Department’s Scrolls

• It is the first of its kind—a fully individualized genetic therapy for a single patient.

• It reaffirms the power of public medicine, research, and daring.

• It expands the frontier of what it means to save a life: not with general cures, but with singular solutions tailored like a suit of hope.

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📰 Further Reading & Footnotes of Joy

• NBC’s TODAY Show Interview with the Family

• CBS Philadelphia’s Report on KJ’s Release

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🏷️ Filed under: Cheery Continuance

Motto of the Department:
Et adhuc operatur — mirabile dictu!
(“It still works — and isn’t that wonderful?”)

Let this entry serve as a testament: that even in an age of cynicism and synthetic despair, a tiny child may carry within his cells the blueprint for a brighter future—edited, restored, and gloriously still working.