FDA Approves World’s First Crispr Gene-Editing Drug for Sickle-Cell Disease
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The U.S. has approved the world’s first medicine employing Crispr technology, a Nobel Prize-winning discovery that promised a powerful new tool to treat disease.

The key thing about this kind of therapy is that it’s not a drug you keep on taking - it’s a one-time thing which permanently cures the disease.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Is there information out there on what other type of genetic issues are being looked at to be cured by this type of approach?